Columbus Day

Explore and navigator Columbus was born in 1451, in the Republic of Genoa to the son of a weaver. Columbus first went to see as a teenager, participating in serveral trading voyages. Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus arrival in the Americans, which happened on October 12, 1492, as a holiday or official celebration. The landing is celebrated as Columbus day in the United States as ( Day of the Race) in many countries. Columbus Day first became an official state holiday in Colorado in 1906, and became a federal holiday in the United States in 1937, though people have celebrated Columbus’s voyage since the colonial periodIn 1792, New York City and other U.S cities celebrated the 300^th anniversary of his landing in the New World.