CAMILLE BOHANNON

The Thanksgiving holiday’s history in North America is rooted in
English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation. It also
has aspects of a harvest festival, even though the harvest in
New England occurs well before the late-November date on
which the modern Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated.       

    
An annual thanksgiving holiday tradition in North American
colonies is documented for the first time in 1619, in what is
now called the Commonwealth of Virginia.  
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
    
   

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe‘s The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth.

The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was held on
November 27, 1924, in New York City, and was originally
called the Macy’s Christmas Parade.

Organized by Macy’s employees to celebrate the opening
of their new flagship store, the event featured floats,
professional bands, and live animals borrowed from the
Central Park Zoo, concluding with Santa Claus arriving
at Herald Square.

Santa in his Sleigh at the first Macy’s Christmas Parade.

On November 26, 1941, Adm. Chuichi Nagumo lead the
Japanese First Air Fleet, an aircraft carrier strike force,
toward Pearl Harbor, with the understanding that should
“negotiations with the United States reach a successful
conclusion, the task force will immediately put about
and return to the homeland.”

Negotiations had been ongoing for months. Japan
wanted an end to U.S. economic sanctions.       

       
The Americans wanted Japan out of China and
Southeast Asia-and to repudiate the Tripartite “Axis”
Pact with Germany and Italy as conditions to be met
before those sanctions could be lifted.

Neither side was budging. President Roosevelt and
Secretary of State Cordell Hull were anticipating a
Japanese strike as  retaliation—they just didn’t
know where.     

 
Adm. Chūichi Nagumo (1887 – 1944)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt^[
(January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)

Cordell Hull
(October 2, 1871 – July 23, 1955)

On November 26, 1942, Casablanca, a World War II-era drama
starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered in
New York City; it went on to become one of the most beloved
Hollywood movies in history.