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History In 1620, a boat filled with more than one hundred people sailed across Atlantic ocean to settle in the new world. They spend a devastating winter as they arrive too late to grow many crops in the new world. With the help of the native Indians, they survived their first winter. The Indians showed them how to hunt, fish and plant in this unfamiliar soil. In the following year, these pilgrims and local Indians celebrated their first harvest with a feast of thanks.; Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has been an annual tradition since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. As a federal and popular holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year together with Christmas and the New Year, ;;;;;;Thanksgiving Day Symbols ;;;The Macy‘s Thanksgiving Day梅西感恩节大巡游 Since 1924, in New York City , the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade is held annually every Thanksgiving Day from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Macys store . The parade features parade floats with specific themes, scenes from Broadway plays, large balloons of cartoon characters and TV personalities, and high school marching bands. The float that traditionally ends the Macys Parade is the Santa Claus float, the arrival of which is a sign of the beginning of the Christmas season. Also founded in 1924, Americas Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit is one of the largest parades in the country. The parade runs from Midtown to Downtown Detroit ;;;;;;;;;;;;