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Happy Thanksgiving From the I-Connect007 Team
November 27, 2024 | Andy Shaughnessy, I-Connect007Estimated reading time: 1 minute
The U.S. officially celebrates Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday of November. This holiday dates back to a feast the Pilgrims held in November 1621 to celebrate their first year in the New World. Governor William Bradford invited Chief Massasoit and other members of the Wampanoag tribe to break bread with them, and the party lasted three days. In 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving Day to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November. Finally, in 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt moved the holiday up one week in hopes of stimulating retail sales during the Great Depression. FDR’s political rivals derided the move as “Franksgiving.” But in 1941, FDR signed a bill proclaiming the fourth Thursday of November to be Thanksgiving Day.
As we take time to observe this holiday, the I-Connect007 team wishes to offer our thanks to you, our global readers, advertisers, and contributors: designers, fabricators, engineers, assemblers, quality and process control gurus, chemists, physicists, supervisors, managers, entrepreneurs, business owners, standards writers, industry experts, and more. You breathe life into the vital, thriving, world-changing electronics industry. You are the real story.
Best holiday wishes from the entire team at I-Connect007.
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