Columbus Day
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And on Columbus Day & all others, please apply
the standards of good taste & courtesy to your posts, and to your life.
Vulgar vocabulary is an inadequate substitute for forceful self-expression.
The first Columbus Day celebration took place on October 12, 1792, when the Columbian Order of New York, better known as the Tammany Society (the precursor to Tammany Hall), held an event to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the historic landing.[6] The Columbus Obelisk in Baltimore was erected in 1792.
Many Italian Americans observe Columbus Day as a celebration of their heritage and not of Columbus himself. The day was celebrated in New York City on October 12, 1866.[7] The day was first enshrined as a legal holiday in the United States through the lobbying of Angelo Noce, an Italian-American immigrant, in Denver.[8] The first statewide holiday was proclaimed by Colorado governor Jesse F. McDonald in 1905, and it was made a statutory holiday in 1907.[9][10] (Colorado replaced Columbus Day with Frances Xavier Cabrini Day in 2020, though that holiday is observed a week earlier.)[11]
For the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1892, following the lynchings of 11 Italian immigrants by a mob in New Orleans, President Benjamin Harrison declared Columbus Day as a one-time national celebration.
Columbus Day - Wikipedia
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Shiftless2
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That's the only appropriate comment.
Don't forget that he was recalled to Spain in chains because even the Spanish Inquisition couldn't accept what he was doing,
