Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day are on Monday, Oct. 14. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt designated it as a national holiday in 1934, according to the Library of Congress. Now a federal ...

Columbus Day is celebrated every year to honor Italian explorer Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492. Hence, on this day, kids must learn about the explorer and his ...

The 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival to the Caribbean and Americas was in 1992, and Columbus, Ohio was considered a fitting place to commemorate the anniversary. The city began ...

Since 1937, the U.S. has observed the holiday on the second Monday of the month, commemorating the explorer’s 1492 arrival in the New World. It remains a federal holiday, even as many states and ...

On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port ...

Pat Vegas of Redbone performs at Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration at Los Angeles Grand Park in 2018. Columbus Day celebrations in the United States—meant to honor the legacy of the man credited with ...

President Donald Trump has vowed to bring Columbus Day "back from the ashes," fiercely defending the holiday from critics who have called for its replacement with Indigenous Peoples' Day. In a post on ...

Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day both fall on the same day, but when are the holidays, and who celebrates them? Columbus Day, a federal holiday, is celebrated across the country with parades ...