President Lincoln signed a proclamation in 1863 asking "all Americans to ask God to "commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable...
It is on a Thursday in November in a year a long time ago. This question has a lot of history behind it - allow me to tersely recapitulate such: On 11/23/39, FDR carved the the turkey at the annual...