Columbus Day is a holiday marked on the second Monday of October every year. The day celebrates explorer Christopher Columbus' landing in the New World on October 12, 1492. Early that morning, a ...

Columbus Day marks the Italian explorer's arrival in the Americas in 1492. Columbus Day is a federal holiday, but some states have begun calling it Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Columbus Day has been celebrated for centuries to commemorate Christopher Columbus' landing in the New World on October 12, 1492. The federal holiday is marked on the second Monday of every ...

Approximately 29 states and Washington, D.C. do not celebrate Columbus Day. About 216 cities have renamed it or replaced it with Indigenous Peoples' Day, according to renamecolumbusday.org.

Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. As this year’s Columbus Day is now upon us, here is what you need to know about the almost century-old national holiday.