Thanksgiving bill

On this date in 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a bill officially establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. The country was able to celebrate on the same day for the first time a year later in 1942. It was not until 1863, when Abraham Lincoln declared thanksgiving to fall on the last Thursday of November, that the modern holiday was celebrated nationally. That held form until 1939, when FDR was faced with a November with five Thursdays. In 1941 FDR relented and lock