Thanksgiving USA

The custom of celebrating Thanksgiving, an annual celebration held after the yield began around 1621 when the Pilgrims fulfilled a successful and generous harvest in the New World. The first Thanksgiving Proclamation was made in 1675.In the late 1700's a day of national Thanksgiving was wished-for by the Continental Congress. Thanksgiving Day is adopted in 1817 New York State as an annual custom. In the middle of the 19th century many other states also celebrated a Thanksgiving Day. In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln fixed a national day of thanksgiving. Since then each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day announcement, regularly designating the fourth Thursday of each November as the holiday. American Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 27th Thursday of November. Thanksgiving is an annual celebration and opportunity to renew the ties that bind us with the ones we love.