Where in the U.S. don’t officially celebrate Christopher Columbus Day?
Christopher Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and a federal holiday in the United States, which celebrates the anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas on October 12, 1492.
The first Christopher Columbus Day in the United States festival took place on October 12, 1792, when the Columbian Order of New York held an event to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the famous landing.
Many Italian Americans regard Columbus Day as a celebration of their legacy. The day was first consecrated as a legal holiday in the U.S. through the lobbying of Angelo Noce, a first-generation American, in Denver. Colorado governor Jesse F. McDonald announced the first statewide holiday in 1905, and in 1907 was created as a statutory holiday.
