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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 .
This is a list of holidays in Grenada. [1] [2] January 1: New Year's Day; ... October 25: Thanksgiving Day, celebrates the United States invasion of Grenada in 1983. [6]
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).
President Abraham Lincoln declared a national Thanksgiving holiday in 1863. It was a gesture, say historians, meant to reconcile a deeply divided country in the midst of the Civil War.
When did Thanksgiving become a national holiday? More than 160 years after the 1621 feast, President George Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, as a day of prayer and thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks, traditionally to God, for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. Certain kinds of food are traditionally served at Thanksgiving meals.
Virgin Islands–Puerto Rico Friendship Day/Columbus Day: Established in 1964 to recognize the ties between the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. [3] October 25 Hurricane Thanksgiving Established to give thanks for being spared from hurricanes. No longer a paid holiday. November 1 Liberty Day: Also known as "D. Hamilton Jackson Day" or "Bull and ...
The Mighty B: Thanksgiving Beeninactment (2008) Molly of Denali: Thanks-for-giving (2024) Mouse on the Mayflower (1968) The Muppet Show (Arlo Guthrie, 1979) My Gym Partner's a Monkey: A Thanksgiving Carol (2008) My Little Pony: Friends Are Never Far Away (2005) Peppa Pig: Thanksgiving (2024) Peppa Pig Tales: Happy Thanksgiving; Pepper Ann ...