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After the first New England Thanksgiving the custom spread throughout the colonies, but each regionchose its own date. In 1789 George Washington, the first president of the United States, proclaimed November 26 a day of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving day continued to be celebrated in the United States on different days in different states until Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, decided to do something about it. For more than 30 years she wrote letters to the governors andpresidents asking them to make Thanksgiving Day a national holiday.
Finally, in 1863, President Lincoln issued a White House proclamation calling on the "whole American people" wherever they lived to unite "with one heart and one voice" in observing a special day of thanksgiving. Setting apart the last Thursday of November for the purpose, the President urged prayers in the churches and in the homesto "implore the interposition of the almighty had to heal the wounds of the nations and to restore it...to full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and union." He also states that they express heartfelt thanks for the "blessing of fruitful fields and healthful skies."
In 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt advanced Thanksgiving Day one week. However, since some states used the new date andothers the old, it was changed again 2 years later. Thanksgiving Day is now celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.
The first formal celebration of Thanksgiving in North America was held by an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who attempted to establish an English settlement on Baffin Island, after failing to discover a northern passage to the Orient in 1576. Canada established thesecond Monday in October as a national holiday, "a day of general thanksgiving," in 1957.
In 1817 New York State adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom. By the middle of the 19th century many other states also celebrated a Thanksgiving Day. In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed a national day of thanksgiving. Since then each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation, usuallydesignating the fourth Thursday of each November as the holiday.
Dia de acción de gracias., día feriado en los EE.UU., celebró por primera vez en la época colonial en Nueva Inglaterra. El origen real, sin embargo, es probable que los festivales de la cosecha que son tradicionales en muchas partes del mundo, Festivales y Fiestas. Después de la primera cosecha fue completada por los colonos dePlymouth en 1621, el gobernador William Bradford proclamó un día de acción de gracias y la oración, compartida por todos los colonos y vecinos nativos americanos. Los Peregrinos de Plymouth Rock celebró su Acción de Gracias en 1621 como un día de tres "gracias" a la celebración de los líderes de la tribu Wampanoag indígenas y sus familias para enseñarles las habilidades de supervivencia que tenían...
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