Thread: (USA) Thanksgiving is almost here!
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Old 11-25-2009, 05:21 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Tom, the people of St. Augustine, Florida, claim that the Spanish who landed there were the first, but I forget the date.
The date I've seen is September 8, 1565, but that would make it more than two decades after the Spanish Thanksgiving in Texas in May of 1541. I understand that there has been some controversy and both groups have staked their claims to being first.

I don't think any historian would deny that the Pilgrims were Johnny-come-VERY-latelies to the whole Thanksgiving thing, however. They were not the first, and they weren't even the first to celebrate in English!
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