November 28 Holidays

Small Business Saturday was created by American Express in 2010 and co-sponsored by the Small Business Association — observed on the Saturday after Thanksgiving to encourage shoppers to patronize local independent businesses, whose purchases generate approximately three times the local economic impact of equivalent spending at large chains. Native American Heritage Day is a U.S. national observance on the Friday after Thanksgiving, honoring the cultures, traditions, and histories of Native American peoples — established by Congress in 2009. National French Toast Day celebrates the egg-soaked, pan-fried bread that medieval European cooks called “poor knights” — documented in Roman cookbooks as early as the 4th century CE and adopted across European culinary traditions under dozens of names. Mauritania Independence Day marks November 28, 1960, when Mauritania gained independence from France — a vast, sparsely populated country of 4 million whose territory spans the Sahara Desert from Morocco to Senegal.