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Thanksgiving 2007 - US Census Bureau

It's Thanksgiving week and the US Census Bureau is providing all the facts with their Facts for Features: Thanksgiving Day: 2007. The Bureau explains that

In the fall of 1621, the religious separatist Pilgrims held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest, an event many regard as the nation’s first Thanksgiving. It eventually became a national holiday in 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving. Later, President Franklin Roosevelt clarified that Thanksgiving should always be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of the month to encourage earlier holiday shopping, never on the occasional fifth Thursday.

Some of the facts include:

— 272 million - preliminary estimate of turkeys raised in the United States in 2007

— 690 million pounds - forecast for U.S. cranberry production in 2007

— 1 billion pounds - total pumpkin production of major pumpkin-producing states in 2006

— 144,086 - # of certified organic turkeys on the nation’s farmland, as of 2005

To find out the rest, you can read the whole thing: Facts for Features: Thanksgiving Day: 2007.

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— michael | November 21, 2007 12:49 PM | I found it online

Comments

Posted by Nicole Simon on November 22, 2007 at 03:29 PM