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Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the Americas. He went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on October 12, 1492 [OS].
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Oct 14, 2024 · In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a federal holiday at the urging of prominent Italian American leaders, such as Generoso Pope in New York City, and Catholic lobbying ...
Nov 16, 2023 · Columbus Day is a federal U.S. holiday commemorating the voyage and landing of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in the “New World” on October 12, 1492.
Oct 19, 2024 · Columbus Day is a holiday in the United States (originally observed on October 12; since 1971 observed on the second Monday in October) to commemorate the landing of Christopher Columbus on October 12, 1492, in the Americas.
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Oct 10, 2016 · Christopher Columbus Day became a holiday in the United States in 1937. Throughout Central and South America, the celebration of this encounter between Europeans and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is celebrated as Día de la Raza or Día de la Hispanidad.
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Oct 9, 2023 · One hundred years later, in 1892, Columbus Day was declared a federal holiday by former President Benjamin Harrison. Harrison called Columbus "the pioneer of progress and enlightenment."
