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Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo), posthumous portrait by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, c. 1520. The first Columbus Day celebration took place on October 12, 1792, when the Columbian Order of New York, better known as Tammany Hall, held an event to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the historic landing. [6]
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Christopher Columbus [b] (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; [2] between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian [3] [c] explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa [3] [4] who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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.
The Columbus Day storm of 1962 (also known as the big blow of 1962, [2] and originally in Canada as Typhoon Freda) was a Pacific Northwest windstorm that struck the West Coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on October 12, 1962.
Official logo of the commemoration. The Columbus Quincentenary (1992) was the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' 1492 arrival in America.Similar to Columbus Day, the annual celebration of Columbus' arrival, the quincentenary was viewed contentiously, as different cultures and peoples had different ways of understanding Columbus' role in history.