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When did thanksgiving become a national holiday?
Sarah Josepha Hale an editor of a popular magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book, campaigned for a national Thanksgiving Day to promote unity. She won the support of the President Abraham Lincoln, and on October 3rd, 1863, during the civil war, Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday November 26 of the same year.