Thanksgiving Day Proclamations
Thanksgiving Day, commemorating the harvest reaped by the Pilgrims at the Plymouth Colony, became a state holiday in California with Chapter 655, Statutes of 1951.Ten years earlier, Congress passed a joint resolution making the fourth Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day. Prior presidents had long proclaimed other days of Thanksgiving, but a conflict between President Franklin Roosevelt and some state governors over the observance led Congress to establish the national holiday. Now, it is customary for the President and the Governor to proclaim each fourth Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day. The day is marked by various types of services, family reunions, provision of meals to the less fortunate, and, of course, parades and football. The traditional turkey dinner serves as a reminder of the wild turkeys consumed by the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving feast in 1621. View various Thanksgiving Day Proclamations dated from 1878 to 1910.
November 21, 1941
First Official Execution of a Woman
Eithel Leta Juanita Spinelli was the first woman to be executed in California, by lethal gas.
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