Columbus Day | My Eyes Tokyo

Happy Columbus Day! *Latin America/Italy/Spain

2018-10-12

Landing of Columbus (12 October 1492), painting by John Vanderlyn. *Photo from Wikipedia October 12 is Columbus Day, a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492. The landing is celebrated as; Día de la Raza (Day of the Race) (some countries in Latin America) Día de la Hispanidad/Fiesta Nacional (Spain) Día de las Américas (Day of the Americas) (Belize, Uruguay) Día de la Raza to Día del Encuentro de las Culturas (Day of the Encounter of Cultures) (Costa Rica) El día

Happy Columbus Day! *United States of America

2018-10-08

First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World; painting by Dióscoro Puebla (1862). *Image from Wikipedia October 8, 2018, is Columbus Day in the United States. Celebration of Columbus’s voyage in the early United States is recorded from as early as 1792, and also the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston celebrated the 300th anniversary of Columbus’ landing in the New World. President Benjamin Harrison called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus’s landing in the New World on the 400th anniversary of the event. Many Italian-Americans observe Columbus Day as a celebration of their

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