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Thanksgiving

First nationwide thanksgiving celebration

Thursday Nov 26, 1789
U.S.

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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