Patrick Towns>> Just as a historical note, it was forty-two years ago this weekend
>> (Thanksgiving weekend, 1963) ...
> Sorry, PAT. It was the week before Thanksgiving.
> The assassination was on a Friday and I was in school. There is no
>school on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Ergo...
> Cheers,
> Henry
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Maybe you are correct; it was a long
> time ago (as you and I both know in our ancient ages!)
Simple fact-checking would show that Kennedy died on November 22, 1963. A 1963 calendar shows:
November 1963 S M Tu W Th F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
November 21, the Thursday before the shooting, was only the *third* Thursday of the month.
Something I am
> not clear on, however: Thanksgiving is always a variable date holiday.
> It _always_ comes on Thursday, but is it the _last_ Thursday in
> November or the _fourth_ Thursday in November (sometimes there are > five Thursdays.)?
A Google search for "thanksgiving holidy date" would answer your question,
*without* a need to clutter up the telecom newsgroup with off-topic , irrelevant, jabber.
Per federal legislation enactged in 1941, in the U.S.A., Thanksgiving is the FOURTH THURSDAY in November.
I know that now and again merchants complain when
> there is a 'late Thanksgiving' as they get 'cheated' out of a week
> of Christmas sales. What is the exact rule?
Set by law. Take it to a legal discussion group. :)