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1621
Plymouth Rock
The history of Thanksgiving in the United States begins with the pilgrims who came over from England and landed on Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts in 1621. The pilgrims shared a feast in the fall time, probably October, of that year with the Wampanoag Indians.
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1817
New York: First State to Adopt Thanksgiving
In 1817, New York was the first state to adopt Thanksgiving as an official holiday.
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1863
President Abraham Lincoln
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared a national day of Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November.
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1941
Thanksgiving Becomes a Federal Holiday
In 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt declared that the Thanksgiving would be on the third Thursday in November. Congress approved that declaration two year later in 1941.
