The first American automobile race is generally held to be the Thanksgiving Day Chicago Times-Herald race of November 28, 1895.

The holiday of Thanksgiving is said to have begun with the Pilgrims in 1621.

The perseverance of the Pilgrims is celebrated during the annual Thanksgiving festival.

In Britain, Canada, New Zealand and some states of Australia, Boxing Day is primarily known as a shopping holiday, much like the day after Thanksgiving in the United States.

In addition, there is a special, shortened Lesson-Sermon for Thanksgiving Day.

Cranberry sauce is regarded as an indispensable part of traditional American and Canadian Thanksgiving menus and some European winter festivals.

The throwback uniform is usually worn on Thanksgiving Day.

Dallas Cowboys punter Mat McBriar attempted a maneuver similar to a drop kick during the 2010 Thanksgiving Classic after a botched punt attempt, but the ball bounced several times before the kick and the sequence of events is officially recorded as a fumble, followed by an illegal kick, with the fumble being recovered by the New Orleans Saints 29 yards downfield from the spot of the kick.

The standard Service of Word and Table is set in a fourfold movement of Entrance, Proclamation and Response, Thanksgiving and Communion, and Sending Forth.

The Eucharistic Prayer, as found in the Thanksgiving and Response section, is prayed by an authorized minister as set forth in The Book of Discipline.

Holiday season is, somewhat, a commercial term that applies, in the US, to the period that begins with Thanksgiving and ends with New Year's Eve.

The recording is broadcast every year, on the Friday after U. S. Thanksgiving, on the public radio program Science Friday.

From time to time the Cockatoo is replaced with a more seasonal creature: a Turkey near Thanksgiving, a Raven near Halloween, et cetera.

* 1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

* Earliest day on which Thanksgiving Day can fall, while November 28 is the latest ; celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.

* 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.

* Earliest day on which Cyber Monday can fall, while December 2 is the latest ; observed on the first Monday after Thanksgiving.

* Earliest day on which National Survivors of Suicide Day can fall, while November 23 is the latest ; celebrated on Saturday before Thanksgiving.

* Earliest day on which Black Friday can fall, while November 29 is the latest ; observed on the day after Thanksgiving.

Hasty pudding is sometimes found in rural communities, particularly around Thanksgiving.

* 1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.

Beginning in 1947 during the Harry S. Truman administration, every Thanksgiving the president is presented with a live domestic turkey during the annual national thanksgiving turkey presentation held at the White House.

Nonetheless it appeared in the 1944 Warner Bros. cartoon Tom Turk and Daffy, uttered by a Thanksgiving turkey whose presence is betrayed to Porky Pig by Daffy Duck.

The race is rescheduled for the day after Thanksgiving.

We who are living today may learn a valuable lesson from those who celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day.

In 1994, the NFL celebrated their 75th Anniversary, and the Dallas Cowboys celebrated their back-to-back Super Bowl titles by unveiling a white " Double-Star " jersey on Thanksgiving Day.

* 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November ( since 1941, on the fourth Thursday ).

* October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving ( United States ) day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November.

* The second Thanksgiving is celebrated at Plymouth Plantation.

However Thanksgiving would not become established as a national holiday until 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that it would be celebrated on the final Thursday in November.

On weekdays of Great Lent, the Divine Liturgy is not celebrated, because the joy of the Eucharist ( literally " Thanksgiving ") is contrary to the attitude of repentance which predominates on these days.

In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is an annual festival celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.

An early version of Thanksgiving was celebrated after safe landing of Frobisher's fleet in Newfoundland after an unsuccessful attempt to find the Northwest Passage.

The Phillipsburg High School Stateliners have an athletic rivalry with neighboring Easton, Pennsylvania's Easton Area High School, which celebrated its 100th anniversary game on Thanksgiving Day 2006.

The thirsty travelers drank the cool water and then celebrated with a Thanksgiving Mass and enjoyed a feast of fish, fowl and deer on April 30, 1598.

This is considered to be the " First Thanksgiving " celebrated in the present-day United States.

Typically celebrated the Friday after American Thanksgiving in North America and the following day internationally, in 2011 the dates were November 25 and 26 respectively, and will be on November 24th 2012 in the UK.

Thanksgiving and festivities are being celebrated annually through its " Tuna Festival ".

It asks why the " First Thanksgiving " was not celebrated or related back to the first colony at Jamestown.

Icarians also celebrated Christmas, New Year's Day, and the Fete du Mais, a fall harvest corn festival similar to Thanksgiving.

The bi-centenary of this church was celebrated in 2008 and a special Mass of Thanksgiving was celebrated on Saturday, 11 October 2008, with Bishop John Buckley as Principal Celebrant.

Then on Thanksgiving Day, he celebrated his holiday by serving home cooked meals to over 200 homeless men and women at the Pine Street Inn.

( The episode is thus shown to take place in the month of November, when Thanksgiving Day is traditionally celebrated in the United States.