Today is Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S and for those who don’t know what Thanksgiving is -Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, and has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26.
The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony survive their first brutal winter in New England (courtesy of Wikipedia).
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