years. But what did the very first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade look like? And what was the first float in the parade? View of a giant fish ballon from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1929.

Thanksgiving in the US is traditionally a time for family and food. American schoolchildren typically learn that the tradition dates back to the Pilgrims, who helped establish Plymouth Colony in ...

Historians don’t know exactly which day the "first Thanksgiving" between the Pilgrims and Native Americans fell on — and it actually happened in October, not November, according to the Farmer ...

The first Thanksgiving was observed in Plymouth ... George Washington issued his Thanksgiving proclamation, designating “a day of public thanks-giving” to be held on “Thursday the 26th ...

when Yale and Princeton played the first Thanksgiving college football match. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade started in 1924 and has become one of the most famous holiday traditions in the US.

2. The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade used live animals from the Central Park Zoo. The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York took place in 1914 when Macy's employees dressed in ...