Vic's Moor Noos 2018 Oct 3

Geezer

…On this day in 1789 at the request of Congress, George Washington proclaimed a Thanksgiving Day for that year. This started the Thanksgiving Day tradition in the US. Some localities had already celebrated a harvest festival at various locations in the Fall. Those became the nationwide Thanksgiving Day. But it was not yet a national holiday every year everywhere.

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