wish you a happy feast of Christophe Colomb. We, Americans celebrate this day on the anniversary of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, October 21, 1492 the. Wow! It is more than five hundred years since this discovery :). Thanks to Christopher Columbus in the Americas else would remained completely unknown in the world. Story behind this day
The first Columbus Day celebration took place in 1792, when the New York City celebrated the 300th anniversary of the landing of Christophe Colomb in the new world. In 1892, president Benjamin Harrison called the people of the United States to celebrate the day of Christophe Colomb on the 400th anniversary of the event. San Francisco is the second most ancient celebration of the day of Christophe Colomb, with Italians have commemorated since 1869.
Columbus Day has been popularized as a holiday in the United States by a lawyer, a son of immigrants Genoese who came to California. During the years 1850, Genoese immigrants themselves are installed and built ranches along the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. As the gold ran out, those clever "Cal-Italians", of the Apennines, were able to prosper as a self-employed farmers in the Mediterranean climate of Northern California.
The lawyer then moved in Colorado, which had a population of Genoese minors, and where, in 1907, the first celebration of all of the State took place. In 1934, on the order of the Knights of Columbus (an organization of Catholic fraternal service named for the voyager), the Congress and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has cancelled Columbus Day, October 12, as a federal holiday.
Since 1971, the second Monday of October was commemorated as a holiday in the United States to celebrate the day of Christophe Colomb. Now, one day is this holiday is usually observed by the banks, the bond market, the U.S. Postal Service and other federal agencies, most State public buildings and many school districts. But several companies and stock markets remain open to this day.
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