This Day in History: FDR Establishes the Modern Thanksgiving Holiday
November 26, 1941. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill officially establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939, Roosevelt had departed from tradition by declaring the next to last Thursday that year as Thanksgiving Day.
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