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Today,
our Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November.
This was set by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
in 1939 (approved by Congress in 1941), who
changed it from Abraham Lincoln's designation
as the last Thursday in November (which could
occasionally end up being the fifth Thursday
and hence too close to Christmas for businesses).
But the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving began at
some unknown date between September 21 and November
9, most likely in very early October.
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The
date of Thanksgiving was probably set by Lincoln
to somewhat correlate with the anchoring of
the Mayflower at Cape Cod, which occurred on
November 21, 1620 (by our modern Gregorian calendar--it
was November 11 to the Pilgrims who used the
Julian calendar).
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