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KF5JRV > TODAY 26.11.19 13:53l 38 Lines 1942 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill officially establishing the
fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
The tradition of celebrating the holiday on Thursday dates back to the
early history of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, when
post-harvest holidays were celebrated on the weekday regularly set aside
as “Lecture Day,ö a midweek church meeting where topical sermons were
presented. A famous Thanksgiving observance occurred in the autumn of
1621, when Plymouth governor William Bradford invited local Indians to
join the Pilgrims in a three-day festival held in gratitude for the
bounty of the season.
Thanksgiving became an annual custom throughout New England in the 17th
century, and in 1777 the Continental Congress declared the first
national American Thanksgiving following the Patriot victory at
Saratoga. In 1789, President George Washington became the first
president to proclaim a Thanksgiving holiday, when, at the request of
Congress, he proclaimed November 26, a Tuesday, as a day of national
thanksgiving for the U.S. Constitution. However, it was not until 1863,
when President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving to fall on the last
Thursday of November, that the modern holiday was celebrated nationally.
With a few deviations, Lincoln’s precedent was followed annually by
every subsequent president–until 1939. In 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt
departed from tradition by declaring November 23, the next to last
Thursday that year, as Thanksgiving Day. Considerable controversy
surrounded this deviation, and some Americans refused to honor
Roosevelt’s declaration. For the next two years, Roosevelt repeated the
unpopular proclamation, but on November 26, 1941, he admitted his
mistake and signed a bill into law officially making the fourth Thursday
in November the national holiday of Thanksgiving Day.
73, Scott KF5JRV
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