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When is Thanksgiving Day?

Thanksgiving Day

About Thanksgiving Day

When is Thanksgiving Day?

When is Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day is celebrated annually as a national holiday in the North American continent on the fourth Thursday of November. The day is meant to celebrate the harvest season and other blessings of the year gone by.

Thanksgiving Day 2020 date: In 2020, Thanksgiving Day holiday will be celebrated on November 27.

Thanksgiving Day history

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. Pilgrims held their second Thanksgiving celebration in 1623 to mark the end of a long drought that had

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