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| On This Day April 25, 1799 |
The official Thanksgiving Day was George Washington's idea when he proclaimed November 26th as Thanksgiving Day. But Americans weren't too quick to honor that particular day or celebrate it as a day of Thanks. It wasn't until Abraham Lincoln made his proclamation that American citizens joined in to celebrate it on November 26th. Today, it is a movable holiday which is always celebrated the last Thursday in November.
Every once in a while, a President deviated from the actual Thanksgiving holiday celebration because they wanted to set aside a day of their own choosing.
On This Day
On this day, President John Adams signed a proclamation which declared April 25, 1799 as a day of fasting and thanksgiving.
His Proclamation says in part:
"I do hereby recommend accordingly, that Thursday, the 25th day of April next, be observed throughout the United States of America as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer; that the citizens on that day abstain as far as may be from their secular occupations, devote the time to the sacred duties of religion in public and in private; that they call to mind our numerous offenses against the Most High God, confess them before Him with the sincerest penitence, implore His pardoning mercy, through the Great Mediator and Redeemer, for our past transgressions, and that through the grace of His Holy Spirit we may be disposed and enabled to yield a more suitable obedience to His righteous requisitions in time to come."
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