This year, the fourth Thursday of the month falls on Nov. As it turns out, there's a reason why Thanksgiving is falls when it does each month, and it's based in the history of Thanksgiving. The story dates to , when Franklin Roosevelt decided to shake up the tradition a bit in the name of capitalism. Thanksgiving had been celebrated on the last Thursday of the month since the time of Abraham Lincoln.
But according to TIME , during , the calendar had been unusual, as the month started on a Wednesday, so there were five Thursdays as opposed to four. To restore some order, President Roosevelt moved the national holiday to the second-to-last Thursday of the month a change that many were unhappy with.
Instead of focusing on the negative, Roosevelt attempted to justify his decision with a pro-shopping response: merchants would now have a holiday further from Christmas to allow for more shopping time.
In a way, this birthed the consumer craze known as Black Friday nearly 80 years ago. The following year , the change stuck as the second-to-last Thursday Nov.
In , he reportedly admitted that the switch was a mistake, but because the calendars were already printed with the third Thursday as Thanksgiving Day , it was too late to go back.
As ended, Roosevelt made the final permanent change, as he signed a bill making Thanksgiving Day fall on the fourth Thursday of November, regardless of if it is the last Thursday of the month or not.
So, regardless of if Turkey Day snuck up on you or if you're been counting down the days till you get a taste of your grandma's famous Thanksgiving dessert again, at least now you have a tidbit of trivia to bust out at your holiday party. But hopefully for you, the Thursday holiday means you instead get a rare four-day weekend! After all, that Friday is the perfect time to get cozy and catch any Thanksgiving movies you might've missed. Ree's Life. Food and Cooking.
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Historians believe that Lincoln chose that particular day because the first national day of gratitude — called for by George Washington to mark the nation's triumph in The Revolutionary War —was on Thursday, November 26, James Madison and John Adams had also designated similar days of thanks, but it wasn't until Lincoln that it became a national holiday.
In , Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving to the second-to-last Thursday for a purely economic reason. He hoped that would allow for more shopping time between turkey day and Christmas, to help boost retail sales during the Great Depression. But the decision was hugely unpopular with Americans, many of whom even derided it as "Franksgiving.
Nobody has tried messing with the timing again, and we've celebrated it that day ever since. Product Reviews. Home Ideas. United States.
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