The thanksgiving is an American tradition and a national holiday.
The first celebration was celebrated in 1621 to conmemorate the succesful harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony. In that year governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving. The Colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast.
In one of these first feasts they invited the local Wampanaog Native Indians.
This invitation was because the Indians taught the Pilgrims how to catch eels and grow corn.
Later by the mid 1800's many states celebrated a Thanksgiving Day.
During the Civil War to unite the Nation president Abraham Lincoln discused the subject and in 1863 he declared the last Thusday of November Day of Thanksgiving.
In 1940's president Franklin Delano Roosvelt changed the Thanksgiving Day to the third Thursday of November where it remains.
Nowadays at this date all family come toguether to eat... turkey of course.
And in this Day Macy's a famous Departament store ( as Corte Ingles in Spain) make a parade in New York city with bigs animated balloons , famous stars and bands from around the country, simply... amazing !!
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