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...
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The Columbus Day storm of 1962 (also known as the big blow of 1962, and originally in Canada as Typhoon Freda) was a Pacific Northwest windstorm that struck...
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Columbus Day is a 2008 crime drama starring Val Kilmer, Marg Helgenberger and Wilmer Valderrama. A thief has just one morning to fix the damage done during...
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Columbus Day is a national holiday in the United States of America. Columbus Day may also refer to: Columbus Day (film), directed by Charles Burmeister...
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Christopher Columbus (/kəˈlʌmbəs/; between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa...
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Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic...
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Columbus (/kəˈlʌmbəs/, kə-LUM-bəs) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the...
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Mississippi Columbus, Missouri Columbus, Montana Columbus, Nebraska Columbus, New Jersey Columbus, New Mexico Columbus, New York Columbus, North Carolina...
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same day as the U.S. federal holiday of Columbus Day, which honors Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. Some people do not observe Columbus Day at all...
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fall on a Monday, and also established Columbus Day. In 1983, Ronald Reagan signed Martin Luther King Jr. Day into law, and it was first observed three...
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spring of 1866 the Ladies Memorial Association of Columbus, Georgia, passed a resolution to set aside one day annually to memorialize the Confederate war dead...
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Monday) – Barack Obama Day All federal holidays except Columbus Day March 25–31 (floating Monday) – Seward's Day October 18 – Alaska Day All federal holidays...
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Benjamin Harrison to institute Columbus Day as a national holiday and lobbied Congress for a national school celebration of the day. The magazine sent leaflets...
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Academic year (redirect from First day of school)
Peoples' Day Break – Columbus Day is always the second Monday in October. Many schools take a week off, though some areas only take Columbus Day itself...
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before Columbus Day (although it is sometimes coincident with the US' observation of Columbus Day). The 1874 book America Not Discovered by Columbus by Norwegian-American...
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The Columbus Quincentenary (1992) was the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' 1492 arrival in America. Similar to Columbus Day, the annual celebration...
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in the United States – Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day – and that made Columbus Day a federal holiday, also permanently on a Monday. This created...
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Rochester bombings (redirect from Columbus Day bombings)
12 and November 6, 1970, in Rochester, New York. Beginning with the Columbus Day bombings on October, 12, the bombings were perpetrated by the Rochester...
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Frank Sinatra (redirect from Columbus Day Riot)
show, and 35,000 fans left outside caused a near riot, known as the Columbus Day Riot, outside the venue because they were not allowed in. Such was the...
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first city in the country to make Election Day a paid holiday for city employees by eliminating Columbus Day. On April 12, 2020, the Governor of Virginia...
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programs. The Foundation organizes New York City's annual Columbus Celebration and Columbus Day Parade, which has celebrated Italian-American heritage on...
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The Knights of Columbus (K of C) is a global Catholic fraternal service order founded by Blessed Michael J. McGivney on March 29, 1882. Membership is limited...
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Columbus Lighthouse (Spanish: Faro a Colón, meaning "Lighthouse to Columbus") is a mausoleum monument to Christopher Columbus located in Santo Domingo...
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Columbus is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of the U.S. state of Georgia. Columbus lies on the Chattahoochee River directly...
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Public holidays in Colombia (redirect from Independence Day (Colombia))
La Asunción / (Assumption Day) (August 15) Día de la Raza / (Columbus Day) (October 12) Día de los Santos / All Saints’ Day (November 1) Independencia...
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Christmas Day. Holidays "Not Widely Observed" are Presidents’ Day, Columbus Day, and Veterans Day. If a holiday occurs on Sunday, the holiday will be observed...
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Anti-Italianism (section Columbus Day)
Abolish Columbus Day are Wrong Archived 2023-11-12 at the Wayback Machine Accessed November 12, 2023 Italian Cultural Society of Sacramento, "Why Columbus Day...
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states have adopted the day as Indigenous People's Day rather than Columbus Day. Similarly, Australia day commemorates the day when the First Fleet first...
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debut novels was Columbus Day, the first book in the Expeditionary Force ( ExForce ) series. The commercial success of Columbus Day, and the follow-up...
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Thanksgiving (redirect from Thanksgiving Day)
American Uniform Monday Holiday Act took effect, the American observance of Columbus Day has coincided with the Canadian observance of Thanksgiving. In the Australian...
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