Thanksgiving day (UK)
2007-01-06 00:09:10 · 11 answers · asked by dafyddjones1926 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks, traditionally to God, for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
2007-01-06 00:26:50 · answer #1 · answered by Tony W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first American Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621, to commemorate the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony after a harsh winter. In that year Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving. The colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast, to which they invited the local Wampanoag Indians.
Days of thanksgiving were celebrated throughout the colonies after fall harvests. All thirteen colonies did not, however, celebrate Thanksgiving at the same time until October 1777. George Washington was the first president to declare the holiday, in 1789.
A New National Holiday
By the mid–1800s, many states observed a Thanksgiving holiday. Meanwhile, the poet and editor Sarah J. Hale had begun lobbying for a national Thanksgiving holiday. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, looking for ways to unite the nation, discussed the subject with Hale. In 1863 he gave his Thanksgiving Proclamation, declaring the last Thursday in November a day of thanksgiving.
In 1939, 1940, and 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt, seeking to lengthen the Christmas shopping season, proclaimed Thanksgiving the third Thursday in November. Controversy followed, and Congress passed a joint resolution in 1941 decreeing that Thanksgiving should fall on the fourth Thursday of November, where it remains
2007-01-06 00:16:05 · answer #2 · answered by FortuneCookiie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as a UK thanksgiving, the closest thing I can think of is the old harvest festival when the crops were brought in. Similarly, I believe I learned in primary grades that the first USA thanksgiving was actually in October. As someone else said Roosevelt made it national bank holiday in the late 30's. The intention was to define a period of time for the Christmas shopping season, and ultimately to boost the economy.
--That Cheeky Lad
2007-01-06 00:41:48 · answer #3 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving is always on the 4th Thursday of November
2007-01-06 00:26:08 · answer #4 · answered by Billie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Monday October 11 in Canada, Thursday November 25 in the States
2016-05-22 22:36:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thursday, November 22, 2007
It is always the 4th Thursday in November.
2007-01-06 00:10:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
is there a UK one?
or r u on about the day they invented corn exchanges for
coz in that case norra clue
2007-01-06 00:16:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the usa its the 4th thursday of november
2007-01-06 00:14:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No such thing- we've nothing to be thankful for unless it's the scheduled date of Tony & Cherie Blair's double execution by sodomy.
2007-01-06 00:22:35 · answer #9 · answered by Ministry of Camp Revivalism 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nov. 22, 2_ _ _. Fill in the blank with the year.
2007-01-06 14:10:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋