Columbus Day is the annual U.S. commemoration of Christopher Columbus's landing in the New World (at San Salvador Island, also known as Waitling Island, today part of the British Bahamas) on October 12, 1492.
This Day in History on Britannica Online, which Tarver library has access to (Encyclopædia Britannica Online), describes Columbus Day as "the New World was “discovered” this day in 1492 when land (most likely San Salvador) was sighted in the Caribbean from the Pinta, one of the three ships that participated in Christopher Columbus's historic first voyage. "
For more information about Columbus Day, please visit Today in History on Library of Congress American Memory website.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Today is Columbus Day
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