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Thanksgiving Day originated in America. Read this article to know more about Thanksgiving and some superb ideas for Thanksgiving 2009. Thanksgiving date for 2009 is 26th November.

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Thanksgiving Day, as the name itself suggests, is a time to offer thanks. On this occasion there are family gatherings and holiday meals, giant balloons and holiday parades. On the dinner table turkey is the most common item along with pumpkin pies. It's the time for all the fun with your family. We present you with the entire Special Thanksgiving Holiday assortment all our readers such as stories of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, some very interesting Turkey facts, tasty holiday recipes, Thanksgiving Games, the history behind Thanksgiving, the Lincoln's proclamation of Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Crafts and much more.

It will fall on date 26th November in the year 2009. Celebrated as the national holiday in the United States to commemorate the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony in 1621 after a winter of great starvation and privation, this day was proclaimed as a Thanksgiving Day in that year itself by the then Governor William Bradford and the feast was shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native Americans. Since then, the tradition of observing the Thanksgiving Day has continued. George Washington proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day on November 26th, 1789.