Friday, November 25, 2011

NYC's Forgotten Holiday


Check out this article from the NY Daily News. You learn something new everyday!

"Today is a holiday, too. Evacuation Day, once far more popular than Thanksgiving in New York, celebrated with parades, speeches and fireworks, commemorates Nov. 25, 1783, and the troops who reclaimed the city that day from the British Empire."

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