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  2. Columbus Day - Wikipedia

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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 the ...

  3. What is Columbus Day? What to know about the federal holiday

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    The second Monday of October marks Columbus Day and Indigenous People's Day, here is what to know about the history of Columbus Day.

  4. Here's what's open and closed on Columbus Day/Indigenous ...

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    President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Columbus Day as a national holiday in 1934 (originally observed on October 12) to commemorate the landing of explorer Christopher Columbus in the ...

  5. 21 Facts You Never Learned About Christopher Columbus

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    After his first trip in 1492, Columbus returned to the colony Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic) in 1493, visited Trinidad and the South American mainland in 1498, and ...

  6. Holiday Special (South Park) - Wikipedia

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    Chaos breaks out among the children at school in response to the cancellation of the day off on Columbus Day, due to an anti-Columbus Day campaign by Randy Marsh. Kyle Broflovski and Stan Marsh confront him with photos documenting how Randy himself has dressed as Columbus many times throughout his life, from his wedding to as recently as 2013.

  7. Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples' Day? Why the controversy ...

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    Columbus Day celebrates the day Christopher Columbus landed in what would become North America in 1492. In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt marked Oct. 12 as a national holiday. It was moved ...

  8. Timeline of support for Indigenous Peoples' Day - Wikipedia

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    The city symbolically renamed Columbus Day as "Indigenous Peoples' Day" beginning in 1992 [4] to protest the historical conquest of North America by Europeans, and to call attention to the losses suffered by the Native American peoples and their cultures [5] through diseases, warfare, massacres, and forced assimilation.

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