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Why is thanksgiving on thursday?

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Why is thanksgiving on thursday?

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George Washington first listed Thanksgiving as November 26 in 1789. Then in Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of 1863, he declared that the last Thursday of November be celebrated as Thanksgiving. This continued as tradition until 1941, when Congress declared that the last Thursday of November be the legal holiday of Thanksgiving.

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