According to the History Channel, in 1789, George Washington proclaimed the first Thanksgiving by the national government of ...

Historians don’t know exactly which day the "first Thanksgiving" between ... Washington declared a day of thanksgiving and prayer in 1789, partly to honor the new U.S. Constitution.

Washington. “Forty years later, Washington, now president, declared Nov. 26, 1789, to be a day of thanksgiving and prayer,” Masich said. “It was the first time Thanksgiving was celebrated ...

1789, as a "Day of Publick Thanksgivin," after he was asked by the first Federal Congress, according to the National Archives. It was the first time Thanksgiving was celebrated under the country's ...

The first Thanksgiving was observed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1621. A good autumn harvest led the Pilgrims to hold a feast to give thanks that lasted for three days. On October 3, 1789 ...