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In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, as specified in a joint resolution passed by Congress in 1941 and a proclamation issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942.

Since 1957, Thanksgiving Day has been celebrated in Canada on the second Monday in October.

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