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Thanks Giving Day – a festival about expressing gratitude

Thanks Giving Day or Thanksgiving Day is a beloved traditional festival observed in a grand fashion in the U.S and Canada to rejoice the harvest season and express gratitude towards Almighty for his holy grace. The origin of Thanks Giving Day celebration can be traced to a 1621 celebratory feast at Plymouth, currently known as Massachusetts, US, when the Puritans turned for help to native Americans who taught them to cultivate crops and survive in the newly explored nation and also helped in building an alliance with the Wampanoag tribe. Enthusiastic and contented by the following year’s abundant harvest, the pilgrims in obligation held a feast expressing their thankfulness towards the natives which is marked as ‘First Thanksgiving’.

The implication of the celebration gradually spread throughout the other states of America and later became much popular as Thanks Giving Day. Since 1863, the festivity is observed as an annual festival on the fourth Thursday of the month of November after President Abraham Lincoln declared the Day as a national holiday during the American Civil War.

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