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History's Happenings for November 28

Magellan Sails Into Pacific
1520

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First Skywriter Displays Skills Over NYC
1922

In the first public exhibition of this remarkable flying skill, Captain Cyril Turner of the British Royal Air Force spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200" in the skies of New York City on this date in 1922.

Over 47,000 calls were received in less than three hours.

Grand Ole Opry Makes Debut
1925

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Coconut Grove Fire Kills 493
1942

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FDR, Churchill, Stalin Meet in Tehran
1943

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Thanksgiving Day

Declaring days of Thanksgiving is not a particularly new idea — our Puritan forebears commonly set aside time to thank God for bountiful harvests, plentiful rains, and survival in general. The fact of our existence as a nation today proves that He was listening.

On October 3, 1789, President George Washington proclaimed the first national Day of Thanksgiving, to be celebrated on that November 26th, in honor of the adoption of the new Constitution.

Encouraged by a grass-roots movement led by authoress Sarah Josepha Hale, on the same day in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln proclamed the last Thursday in November to be a National Day of Thanksgiving, to help bolster morale sagging under the weight of the Civil War.

After the War, Congress established Thanksgiving Day as an ongoing National Holiday.

Although this special day has had attributed to it many reasons — new government, salvation from war and famine, great victories — by the end of the nineteenth century it had become the uniquely American holiday centered around family and thanks to God for His blessings that is now recognized as its foundation.

Although it's had a lot of glitz added — football games, parades, holiday sales — these traditional meanings of Thanksgiving Day remain unchanged. We could use more such special days.




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