Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. This holiday started almost 400 years ago in 1620 when British colonists gave a feast of thanksgiving for a good harvest and also to thank the Indians for their help.
День Благодарения отмечается в четвертый четверг ноября. Этот праздник начали почти 400 лет назад в 1620 году, когда британские колонисты дали праздник благодарения за хороший урожай, а также поблагодарить индейцев за их
Thanksgiving Day was first celebrated in 1621 by English colonists who lived in Plymouth Colony. Previous winter was very hard and hungry, a new winter also promised colonists little good. Then Governor William Bradford decided to raise the spirits of his men and organized the first Thanksgiving. Holiday to celebrate together the British colonists and their neighbors, the Indians, with the help of which the Plymouth colony survived the first winter of starvation.