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Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and the preceding year. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and in the second Monday of October in Canada. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.