** AMERICANS ** Please tell me this about Thanksgiving in your country

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"NOVEMBER THANKSGIVING THURSDAY":

ORIGINS OF FOURTH THURSDAY OF NOVEMBER AS THANKSGIVING DAY



Why is Thanksgiving Day officially observed on the fourth Thursday of November?

Though the United States' thanksgiving celebration on the fourth Thursday of November began with the United States Congressional declaration of 1941 establishing that weekday as the legal holiday of Thanksgiving Day, earlier United States Presidential Proclamations called for the last Thursday of November to be celebrated as Thanksgiving. Those Presidential Proclamations, in turn, built upon an American Colonial tradition--predating the formation of the United States-- establishing a Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. And the Thanksgiving Day Proclamations issued by American Colonial Governor Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757) played an important role in the origin of "November Thanksgiving Thursday."

This is a little-known history not mentioned by other articles, which, after discussing the "first" Thanksgiving, typically begin their list of Thanksgiving Day proclamations with the one issued in 1789 by United States President George Washington naming November 26 as Thanksgiving Day. Next mentioned is often United States President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of 1863, which declared that the last Thursday of November should be celebrated as a day of thanksgiving. Succeeding U. S. Presidents followed Lincoln's lead, and this began the annual practice of U. S. Presidential proclamations calling on the people to celebrate Thanksgiving holiday on the last Thursday of November. Then, in 1941, the United States Congress declared that in the years thereafter, the national legal holiday of Thanksgiving Day would be on November's fourth Thursday.

It's for the four day weekend and Black Friday orgy. :)

honest abes laptop got wet when he set it down to take a leak. it was raining hard for three days and nights well any way when he saw his man servant just sitting there aware of his laptop getting wet and not informing him or doing anything to help.honest abe became enraged he grabed his horse whip and comenced to giving the man an honest ass whoopin. after 20 or 30 mins abes arm got tired and sore so he stopped beating the man servant and took a break.anywho abe was late for dinner now because of the amount of time he had spent administering said ass whoopin. when it finally dawned on old abe that mrs. mc crearys chicken and dumplings were most asuradly all gone. this too enraged abraham into another blizzard of rage. after an hour or so abes brother called him on his cellphone and said he needed help cutting some firewood and could he barrow his man servant abe said yes and told the servant to fetch his ax from the shed the man didnt hear abes order so abe screamed as loud as he could GET MY AX NOW AND DONT MAKE ME AX YOU AGIAN. the man scared half to death of another ass whoopin started running and was never heard from again . hope this anserws your question..

come on people help us figure this out

So people can take a four day timeframe off to spend time with family...travel time getting there. It works out better. The foresaw the future...that TSA would have inspections so take longer to travel.

who gives a rats ass?

anyone else deep frying a rats ass?

i givea rodents ass sir or madam

president fdr made it the 4th thursday of the month so retailers would have one month apart for their holiday sales

It's done that way to confuse and perplex others.