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The date of Thanksgiving Day follows a 28-year cycle, broken only by century years that are not a multiple of 400 (e.g. 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, 2500 ...). The break in the regular cycle is an effect of the leap year algorithm , which dictates that such years are common years as an adjustment for the calendar / season alignment that leap years ...
The following holidays are observed by the majority of US businesses with paid time off: New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, [2] Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after known as Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas. There are also numerous holidays on the state and local level that are observed to varying degrees.
These vintage Thanksgiving photos show the parades, food preparation, and fanfare from the 1920s to the 1990s.
4148: March 5, 1979 (): Bob Newhart (guest host), Walter Matthau, Norman Fell: Freddy Fender: 4149: March 6, 1979 (): Rich Little (guest host), Cher, Elliott Gould ...
Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November every year. But why does it seem so much later than last year?
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Traditional "first Thanksgiving" stories taught in schools tend to erase the true history, and the Native American perspective.
The double Thanksgiving continued for two more years, and then on December 26, 1941, Roosevelt signed a joint resolution of Congress changing the official national Thanksgiving Day to the fourth Thursday in November starting in 1942 (there are usually four but sometimes five Thursdays in November, depending on the year).