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jean88
10-29-2005, 08:55 AM
Hi Everyone
Please excuse my ignorance but does anyone know the date of thanksgiving in 2006 as we travel to WDW on the 29th November and we wondered if it was the 30th or if it was the Thursday before on the 23rd.

Jean xx :wave:
bicker
10-29-2005, 09:09 AM
November 23.
mturner
10-29-2005, 11:00 AM
in november... isn't it?
bicker
10-29-2005, 11:04 AM
In the United States, the holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.
mturner
10-29-2005, 11:12 AM
and i live in these great states. actually, i think the US is the only country that actually celebrates Thanksgiving as it is a holiday celebrating our new country.

other countries, perhaps, have similiar holiday but not Thanksgiving.
bicker
10-29-2005, 11:16 AM
In Canada, where the harvest generally ends earlier in the year, the Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated on the second Monday in October.
jean88
10-29-2005, 02:06 PM
Thankyou so much.

Jean xx :wave:
mturner
10-29-2005, 02:17 PM
i guess it stands to reason that other NA countries would have a Thanksgiving holiday as they were founded also!

I am unsure why we celebrate that thursday in november but i would guess that someone remembers American history far better than I.

4th thursday HUH??? good thing i am not the one doing the cooking.
iliketoby
10-29-2005, 11:11 PM
Thanksgiving was a holiday. Then it wasn't. Then it was. Blah, Blah, Blah-biddy-blah, President Lincoln said, OK, fine, we'll celebrate Thanksgiving the last Thurdsday of November, and that was that.

Then President Roosevelt, trying to improve the economy with a longer Christmas shopping season, backed it up to the second to last Thursday in November. Now half the country is screaming, "How can you change a holiday? This isn't right!" And the other half of the country is going, "Huh? When is Thanksgiving?", so they changed it back to where it had been, which only added to the confusion.

So, Congress finally passed a law saying, "Here's when we're celebrating Thanksgiving -- no takebacks." They actually set it up so that the date can't be changed. It is the fourth Thursday in November.

So, 2 out of 7 years (I think it's 2 out of 7) we get an extra week to our Christmas shopping season. The economists talk about this every year, especially the years with the extra week.

How they do it in Canada I don't know because the economist guys never talk about that.

US Thanksgiving doesn't celebrate the founding of the country -- that's July 4. On Thanksgiving we're supposed to be praying to God, giving Thanks.