Daily Almanac for Sunday, October 3, 2021; Day 276 of the Year

On this date in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. Here he is in 1860 by Mathew Brady, taken the day of the Cooper Union speech. In Library of Congress, Public Domain, https commons.wikimedia.org

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