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This year Thanksgiving Day occurs on Thursday, November 28. It is a national holiday in the United States, and people travel great distances to be with their families for this occasion.
The tradition started with the Pilgrim Fathers, the founders of a colony in North America. in 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.
Today the traditional Thanksgiving meal is similar to the first. People eat roast turkey with cranberry sauce, potatoes, corn and pumpkin pie. New York City celebrates with Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This department store organized its first parade in 1924. This parade is very famous, and more than two million people go to see it every year.
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