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Thanksgiving at Plymouth, oil on canvas by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, 1925 National Museum of Women in the Arts. Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November (which became the uniform date country-wide in 1941).
The NFL Thanksgiving logo used for 2016; the year is updated annually, with the new NFL shield being used for the first time in 2008. Since its inception in 1920, the National Football League (NFL) has played games on Thanksgiving Day, patterned upon the historic playing of college football games on or around the November holiday.
An unusual annual Day of Thanksgiving began in 1606 following the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and developed into Guy Fawkes Day on November 5. [4] Days of Fasting were called on account of plagues in 1604 and 1622, drought in 1611, and floods in 1613.
Every Thanksgiving Day I recall, with regret, past family gatherings and squandered opportunities to learn more about the past lives of my relatives. As the recently-deceased Studs Terkel proved ...
Thanksgiving always falls on the fourth Thursday in November. The date changes, but the day of the week never does. But that wasn't always the case.
National Football League Thanksgiving Day games: Tennessee Titans 47, Detroit Lions 10 The Titans improve their league-best record to 11–1, while the Lions suffer 12th consecutive defeat. Tennessee will secure a playoff berth if the Indianapolis Colts lose at Cleveland on Sunday. Dallas Cowboys 34, Seattle Seahawks 9
Texas refused to celebrate the U.S. Thanksgiving. But Texans refused to go along. November has five Thursdays this year. That’s how it was in 1944, 1945, 1950, 1951 and 1956.
In 2008, Congress passed a law signed by President George W. Bush making the Friday after Thanksgiving (United States) National Native American Heritage Day. [3] [4] Some individual states have also taken legislative action to recognize this day. For example, Maryland established this day in 2008 under the name American Indian Heritage Day. [5]