The shopping season is now in full swing. And whether you bought electronics or clothes or toys this weekend...or just stayed home and enjoyed football and leftovers...retailers everywhere enjoyed a long day of consumer spending on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year. And did you know the actual celebration date of Thanksgiving has some shopping trivia in its history? Here's an interesting tidbit to bring to your next holiday gathering.Abraham Lincoln gave his Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1863, and stated that the last Thursday in November would be the national day of Thanksgiving - but then in 1939, during the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt switched Lincoln's chosen date of the last Thursday of November to the second-to-last Thursday of November, p...
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