Today in History revisits the September 13, 1939 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story about Thanksgiving 1939 being held on different days in North Dakota and Minnesota because Roosevelt moved it up a week but Minnesota's governor refused. Continue reading for more details.

Governor Moses of North Dakota and Governor Stassen of Minnesota didn’t do a thing Tuesday to clear up the Thanksgiving situation in Greater Grand Forks.

In fact, the governors fixed it so there’s be two “Turkey days.”

Governor Moses, following President Roosevelt’s lead, moved Thanksgiving a week ahead—to November 23. But, Governor Stassen, a Republican, declined to go along with Mr. Roosevelt and set November 30 for the Minnesota observance.

Because of the peculiar wording of a North Dakota sta

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