Tomorrow will be Thanksgiving Day in the US. It has been celebrated for the past 400 years, but it wasn’t always on the fourth Thursday of November. Sources say that it started in 1621 though that isn’t confirmed. Also, Farmer’s Almanac says it was celebrated on November 25th from 1668, but then it changed after that.
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When George Washington became president, Congress requested that he declare November 26, 1789 to be Thanksgiving Day. But since then, other presidents have also moved the date around several times. During Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, the last Thursday of November became the regular annual day that Thanksgiving was celebrated. However, things would change again in 1939.
Since the last Thursday of November was too close to December, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to move it to the second-to-last Thursday so that people would have an allowance for their Christmas shopping. Still, not all states followed suit.
The House of Representatives also intervened. They drafted and passed a resolution which stated that Thanksgiving Day will be on the last Thursday of November. However, the Senate later amended this to the fourth Thursday in November which has been the date Thanksgiving is celebrated since.
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Source: neatorama