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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