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The Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated each November in the United States. Thanksgiving was a harvest festival, first held by the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in 1621. The day is now observed by church services and family reunions; the customary turkey dinner is a reminder of the four wild turkeys served at the Pilgrims’ first thanksgiving feast.
Few people realize that the Pilgrims did not celebrate Thanksgiving any year thereafter, though some of their descendants later made a "Forefather's Day" that usually occurred on December 21 or 22. In 1827, Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale began lobbying several Presidents for the instatement of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, but her lobbying was unsuccessful until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln finally made it a national holiday with his 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation.
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