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What day is Thanksgiving 2024? Thanksgiving takes place on Nov. 28, 2024.Last year, the holiday was celebrated on Nov. 23, and it was on Nov. 24 in 2022. Why is Thanksgiving late this year?
Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November. This year, that's November 23, 2023. The fourth Thursday is often, but not always, the last Thursday of the month.
Thanksgiving is all about tradition. Familiarity. But some day, those traditions will have to change
The earlier date created an extra seven days for Christmas shopping since at that time retailers never began promoting the Christmas season until after Thanksgiving. But making the proclamation so close to the change wreaked havoc on the holiday schedules of many people, schools, and businesses, and most Americans were not in favor of the change.
It would not be until after the end of the war, 1945, that the new date of Thanksgiving would fully take root.) Also in 1945, 1950, 1951, and 1956, November had five Thursdays. Texas was the last state to change its law, observing the last Thursday of Thanksgiving for the final time in 1956.
"Thanksgiving Day Parade", a song by Dan Bern on his album New American Language (2001). "Thanksgiving Day", a song by Ray Davies on his album Other People's Lives (2006). "The Thanksgiving Song" (2020), written and performed by Ben Rector was the opening track from his holiday album A Ben Rector Christmas.
Here's everything you need to know about Thanksgiving 2024 from the date it falls to the origins of why it's always on a Thursday.
An 1890s poster showing Washington's Birthday as February 22, the date on which it always fell before being changed by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.. The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub. L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250, enacted June 28, 1968) is an Act of Congress that permanently moved two federal holidays in the United States to a Monday, being Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day, and further ...