The first Columbus Day celebration recorded in the United States was held in New York in 1792. On Oct. 12 — the day in 1492 that Columbus and his ships made landfall not in Asia, as the explorer ...

The Italian navigator namesake who sailed to the modern-day Americas in 1492, Christopher Columbus has long been considered by some scholars and Native Americans as an affront to those who had ...

The largest of Columbus’s fleet, the 150-ton vessel grounded in present-day Haiti on Christmas Day, 1492. Columbus ordered it stripped, using its timbers to construct a village he named La Navidad.

Columbus Day celebrations date back to 1792, ... For many Americans, the second Monday in October is a celebration of Italian heritage and Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage to the Americas.

It was on this day in 1492 that Jews were expelled from Spain, bringing a dramatic and brutal end to what had once been a golden age, the freest, most successful chapter in diaspora Jewish history ...

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Most Americans know this, but they’re not as sure we should still be celebrating his journey as a national holiday.A new Rasmussen Reports national ...

The first Columbus Day celebration recorded in the United States was held in New York in 1792 to honor Italian American heritage and to mark Oct. 12, 1492, the day that Columbus and his ships ...

Today is Columbus Day, a federal holiday in the U.S. that officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' landing in the New World in 1492. Many Italian-Americans observe Columbus ...

Columbus Day marks the Italian explorer's arrival in the Americas in 1492. Columbus Day is a federal holiday, but some states have begun calling it Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Columbus was an Italian explorer who set sail for America on 12 October, 1492. ... Columbus Day was not named an official national holiday until 1937, when President Franklin D Roosevelt ...

No Columbus Day in Columbus, ... of indigenous people were killed or died of disease under colonization of parts of the eastern U.S. that began with Columbus’ arrival in 1492, ...

Columbus Day is the time set aside each year to recognize Italian explorer Christopher Columbus making landfall in the Americans in 1492. It is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October ...