The President makes a Thanksgiving Proclamation every year. ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/26/presidential-proclamation-thanksgiving-day-2014 is a site for the 2014 proclamation.)In recent years, it has become customary for the National Turkey Federation to give the President a large turkey which he pardons and sends to a farm to live out its natural life.
It was a Presidential proclamation in 1862 by Abe Lincoln. Federal legislation set the date as the 4th Thursday in November in 1941.
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The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621. The first Thanksgiving as a national holiday was 1863.
The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621.
The First Thanksgiving was held sometime during the Autumn of the year 1621.
The First Thanksgiving was held sometime during the Autumn of the year 1621.
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2009 was the first year that Micheal's opened for Thanksgiving.
The first Thanksgiving parade took place in November 1621.