President Abraham Lincoln’s powerful Thanksgiving proclamation, issued amid the carnage of the Civil War, gave the holiday its statement of purpose. It is “to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next,” the president said on Oct. 3, 1863, “as
On this day in history, May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation for Americans to show a public expression of reverence to mothers through the celebration of Mother’s Day. “Proclamation 1268 – Mother’s Day” stated, in part, “Whereas, by a
After the official ceremony at St James’s Palace the young Queen, 25, retreated to Sandringham to grieve in private with her mother and sister Princess Margaret. 40 years ago (1983) Police began searching for the missing race horse Shergar, which had been
Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval has proclaimed this Sunday “They Gotta Play Us Day” in his city to celebrate the Bengals taking on the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC championship for the second year in a row. But Pureval did not make