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The Holiday

We bet you didn’t know that the woman who wrote “Mary Had A Little Lamb” is also the person responsible for making Thanksgiving an official holiday.

After petitioning the government for 17 years, writer Sarah Josepha Hale finally convinced Abraham Lincoln in 1863 to make it a national holiday that took place every year on the fourth Thursday of November.

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