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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 ...
October 25 – The London Review of Books is first issued, its founding editors being Karl Miller, Mary-Kay Wilmers and Susannah Clapp. For its first six months it appears as an insert to The New York Review of Books. [2] November – Dambudzo Marechera's The House of Hunger wins the Guardian Fiction Prize. [3] unknown dates
Even after that first established Thanksgiving in 1789, the dates and months of subsequent Thanksgiving holidays varied. It took almost another century for one clear date to be established.
The model year (sometimes abbreviated as MY) is a method of describing the version of a product which has been produced over multiple years. The model year may or may not be the same as the calendar year in which the product was manufactured.
These vintage Thanksgiving photos show the parades, food preparation, and fanfare from the 1920s to the 1990s.
Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of every November, based on an act of Congress in 1941.
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in October and November in the United States, Canada, Saint Lucia, Liberia, and unofficially in countries like Brazil and Germany. It is also observed in the Australian territory of Norfolk Island .
But, in 1939, department store mogul Fred Lazarus Jr., concerned that the late Thanksgiving that year would mean less shopping days before Christmas, persuaded President Franklin D. Roosevelt to ...