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Rhonda
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 |  Subject: November News!  Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:19 pm | |
| November 1, 1875: Charles Frederick (Laura's brother) born in Minnesota 
November 3: Happy Birthday Carol!
November 4: Daylight Saving Time Ends....Fall Back 
November 6: Happy Birthday ILuvMichael!
November 6: Election Day. GO VOTE!!! 
November 10, 1941: Grace Ingalls Dow (Laura's sister) dies. She married but had no children.  
November 11: Remembrance Day, Canada! 
November 11: Veteren's Day! 
November 1863: Abraham Lincoln proclaims the last Thursday in November as a national Day of Thanksgiving.
November 22: Happy Thanksgiving 
Please list any birthdays that I might have missed, or other happenings...thanks!
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EllieJane
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| | Subject: Re: November News! Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:45 pm | |
| Just that isin't thinksgiving on the 4th thursday not on the last cause the last would be the 29th...
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LindsayCrouseFan
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| | Subject: Re: November News! Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:12 pm | |
| My calendar says Thanksgiving is on Thursday, November 22.
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Rhonda
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| | Subject: Re: November News! Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:40 am | |
| It is on the 22nd this year.....but history says Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as a day to give thanksgiving....it must have changed through time......
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Lori
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| | Subject: Re: November News! Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:22 pm | |
| Yes, it changed in the 40's, I believe, so that there would be one more week of shopping before Christmas.
I just checked this. FDR did change Thanksgiving once to the 3rd Thursday, but after that Congress made it officially the 4th Thursday in November.
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LIWnut
Proverbs 3:5-6
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| | Subject: Re: November News! Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:52 pm | |
| Nov 11th, Rememberance Day in Canada
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LindsayCrouseFan
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| | Subject: Re: November News! Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:15 pm | |
| Election Day on November 6th
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| | Subject: Re: November News! Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:16 pm | |
| Daylight Savings Time ends on November 4th.
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emilyanneoftheprairie
Ingalls Friend for Life
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| | Subject: Re: November News! Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:49 am | |
| wow thats kool wh they changed that!
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