When it comes to interesting facts about the Thanksgiving holiday, it's a virtual horn of plenty.
What some of us call Turkey Day didn't become a national holiday until 1863. Just weeks before President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, he proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of Thanksgiving. It wasn't until 1939 when President Franklin Roosevelt declared Thanksgiving should be observed on the fourth Thursday of the month. Congress made it a national holiday in 1941.
As for the turkey your family is about to devour, it's a good bet that bird was raised in Minnesota. The ...
When it comes to interesting facts about the Thanksgiving holiday, it's a virtual horn of plenty.
What some of us call Turkey Day didn't become a national holiday until 1863. Just weeks before President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, he proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of Thanksgiving. It wasn't until 1939 when President Franklin Roosevelt declared Thanksgiving should be observed on the fourth Thursday of the month. Congress made it a national holiday in 1941.
As for the turkey your family is about to devour, it's a good bet that bird was raised in Minnesota. The ...