Why does Thanksgiving always fall on a Thursday?

peasypod

If you want to know "Why Thursday?"...It wasn't until the third year of the Civil War, on October 3, 1863, that Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving. After the war, in 1865, the last Thursday in November was proclaimed the national Thanksgiving day. But in 1951, because of public outcry, the US Congress named the fourth Thursday of November as the official Thanksgiving Day, and it has remained ever since. Nov 24 04, 7:02 AM

_princess_007

At the beginning of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency, Thanksgiving was not a fixed holiday; it was up to the President to issue a Thanksgiving Proclamation to announce what date the holiday would fall on. However, Thanksgiving was always the last Thursday in November because that was the day President Abraham Lincoln observed the holiday when he declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863. http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/thanksg.html Nov 17 06, 4:05 AM

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