Thanksgiving - First nationwide thanksgiving celebration
Time: Thursday Nov 26, 1789
Place: U.S.
Details: As President of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide thanksgiving celebration in America marking November 26, 1789, "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God".
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