President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated Columbus Day as a national holiday in 1934. Trump has long complained about Democrats tearing down statues of Columbus, a complaint he made again in ...

Communities move away from commemorating Columbus holiday. Oct. 12, 2009 -- While Federal government offices in Washington, D.C. are closed for Columbus Day, students in Maryland, just a few miles ...

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, also known as Columbus Day, happens every October on the month's second Monday. This US federal holiday will fall on Monday, October 14, this year.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated Columbus Day as a national holiday in 1934. Trump has long complained about Democrats tearing down statues of Columbus, a complaint he made again in ...

Organizers of the 39-year-old Columbus Italian Festival, traditionally held on Columbus Day weekend, were not given advance notice of the city's decision, said board member Joseph Contino.

Columbus Day was Italian Americans' idea, and many of them want to keep it. After strong lobbying from the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic service organization consisting largely of Italian ...

I’m an educator. Our schools must teach students the whole truth about Columbus. When my high school students discussed what they learned in elementary school, their depiction — of a heroic ...

The first Columbus Day celebration recorded in the United States was held in New York in 1792. On Oct. 12 — the day in 1492 that Columbus and his ships made landfall not in Asia, as the explorer ...

Columbus Day was proclaimed a national holiday in 1934 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to mark Christopher Columbus' arrival on the Bahamian island of Guanahaní on Oct. 12, 1492.