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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). [2] [3] Outside the United States, it is sometimes called American Thanksgiving to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions.
Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November, determined by an act of Congress in 1941. Prior to that, the date of Thanksgiving was a bit of a political football.
In August 1939, amid the Great Depression, Fred Lazarus Jr., head of Federated Department Stores (which would later become Macy's), lobbied President Franklin D. Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving a week earlier, to the second to last Thursday of November instead of the last Thursday of November, to make the Christmas shopping season last longer and help boost retail sales.
A Thanksgiving tradition in some households involves two people who make a wish, then pull both sides of the furcula until it snaps. The person with the larger half is said to get their wish granted.
When is Thanksgiving 2023? Thanksgiving is on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. On what day does Thanksgiving fall? The holiday falls on the fourth Thursday in November each year.
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.
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.
Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November, or November 23 in 2023. It used to be the last Thursday until President Franklin Roosevelt changed it.