Thursday, November 20, 2014

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It had become an official holiday in 1863 during the civil war. The first thanksgiving was celebrated by pilgrims and the Wampanoag after their first harvest in the new world in 1621. It had lasted three days and 90 Native Americans and 53 pilgrims attended the first thanksgiving.

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