Thursday, November 26, 2009

This Day in History

68 Years Ago Today

FDR establishes modern Thanksgiving holiday

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill officially establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.

147 Years Ago Today

Alice in Wonderland manuscript is sent as a Christmas present

On this day in 1862, Oxford mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson sends a handwritten manuscript called Alice's Adventures Under Ground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.

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