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Columbus Day
Columbus Day is a holiday celebrated in many countries in the Americas,
commemorating the date of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in
1492. Similar holidays, celebrated as Día de la Raza in many countries in
Latin America, Discovery Day in the Bahamas, Hispanic Day in Spain, and Día
de la Resistencia Indígena in Venezuela, commemorate the same event.
Christopher Columbus
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Many Italian-Americans observe Columbus Day as a celebration of
Italian-American heritage.
The first recorded celebration of Columbus Day in the USA was held by the
Tammany Society, also known as the Colombian Order, in New York on October
12th 1792, marking the 300th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the
Bahamas.
Columbus Day was first celebrated by Italians in San Francisco in 1869,
following on the heels of 1866 Italian celebrations in New York City. The
first state celebration was in Colorado in 1905, and in 1937, President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt set aside Columbus Day as holiday in the United
States. Since 1971, the holiday has been commemorated in the U.S. on the
second Monday in October, the same day as Thanksgiving in neighboring Canada.
Banks are almost always closed on this day, as are government offices. Public
schools however are not usually closed on Columbus Day; it is also not
recognized by most American employers as a day off from work.
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