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    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 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    same day as the U.S. federal holiday of Columbus Day, which honors Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. Many people do not observe Columbus Day at all...
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    Patriots' Day (Patriot's Day in Maine) is an annual event, formalized as a legal holiday or a special observance day in six U.S. states, commemorating...
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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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    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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    Mother's Day is an annual holiday celebrated in the United States on the second Sunday in May. Mother's Day recognizes mothers, motherhood and maternal...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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[citation needed] Catholic fraternal service order founded by Fr. Michael J. McGivney on March 29, 1882. Membership...
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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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    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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    American Day' refers to October 12, which is celebrated as Columbus Day in the United States. It should not be confused with "Pan American Day," which...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Ronald Reagan watched the film more than a month before its screening on Columbus Day, October 10, 1983. He wrote in his diary that the film was "very effective...
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    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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  • 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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    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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