Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011

Columbus Day & the weekend ahead

Nearly 520 years since the day Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas, his achievements remain clouded in controversy.


Columbus Day wasn't officially celebrated until 300 years after his discoveries, when a group called the Colombian Order organized a celebration in New York City in honor of the Italian explorer in 1792.

It would be another 255 years before President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 deemed October 12 a federal holiday. In 1971 it was moved to the second Monday in October, where it remains.

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