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When is Thanksgiving day?
I am from the UK so I don't know very much about it. So the puritans landed in North America and the Native Americans helped them out with food etc which started off Thanksgiving??
Some things I've read says it is celebrated on the 4th thursday in November and some it says the 3rd thursday, which one is right??
Is there anyone in the UK who celebrates this, I bet it's a lot of fun getting all the family round and having a big dinner - maybe not for the person who's cooking though! What else do you do on this day??
sorry it was pilgrims that the native american's helped not puritans, my mistake!
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- 1 decade ago
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a traditional North American holiday, which is a form of harvest festival. The date and whereabouts of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic of modest contention, though the earliest attested Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida.[1] Despite scholarly research to the contrary, the traditional "first Thanksgiving" is venerated as having occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621.
Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving dinner is done in the evening, usually as a gathering of friends and/or family. At this time you say all your thanks and wishes.
2008 date October 13, 2008 (Canada) November 27, 2008 (U.S.)
2009 date October 12, 2009 (Canada) November 26, 2009 (U.S.)
I will be celebrating it with my husband as he is American.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving
