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    The Year of Two Thanksgivings

    Nov 01, 2020 2 minutes
    by Bianca Lundien Kennedy
    Illustrated by Adam Larkum

    IN 1863, PRESIDENT Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation stating that Thanksgiving Day would be observed on the last Thursday of November. This tradition continued for 76 years, until 1939. That year, November had five Thursdays, causing Thanksgiving Day to fall on the fifth Thursday, November 30, only three weeks before Christmas.

    That August, many business groups urged

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