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TIL of Forefathers' Day, a regional holiday celebrated in Plymouth, Massachusetts, every year on December 22. Established in 1769 as a day of "filial piety", it eventually became obscure after the emergence and popularity of Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863.

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