Two Thanksgivings? Family members in another state off on a different day? While there have been Thanksgiving celebrations in the United States before there was even a United States, the holiday's ...

For two years, confused states celebrated on two separate days. — -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt confused plenty of people in 1939 when he issued a presidential proclamation moving ...

Americans have been giving thanks with feasting dating back to 1541, according to the National Park Service, but President George Washington didn’t declare Nov. 26 a national day of thanks until 1789.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. As the first president of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide thanksgiving celebration ...

As November sometimes has five Thursdays, this meant that the holiday could fall as late as the last day of the month. When that occurred under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, ...

We tend to associate Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims in 1621. Shiny square buckles on boxy black shoes and a feast with the Indians, but in fact, this cherished national holiday actually began ...

A duplicate of the George Washington statue in Richmond, Virginia was erected outside The National Gallery in London, England. (Getty Images) On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early.

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