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Thanks, Mom!

  • May 13, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Happy Mother’s Day! In the early 1900s, schoolteacher Anna Jarvis began working hard to create a national holiday honoring all mothers — to fulfill her own mother’s longtime wish. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official.

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