The date of occupancy - Columbus Day - inspired nicknames; for the athletic teams: the Explorers; the school newspaper: The Navigator; the school annual: The Compass, and Discovery: Chadsey's literary magazine.
He came to national attention in the early 1990s for his anti-Columbus Day protests with the American Indian Movement of Colorado, of which he formerly served as Co-Director and is now a member of the Leadership Council.
He also played a pivotal role in creating that community's Columbus Day parade.
On 12 October 1936 the celebration of Columbus Day had brought together a politically diverse crowd at the University of Salamanca, including Enrique Pla y Deniel, the Archbishop of Salamanca, and Carmen Polo Martínez-Valdés, the wife of Franco, Falangist General José Millán Astray and Unamuno himself.
The Summit House is open weekends and holidays from Memorial Day through Columbus Day.
Utica is the location of the annual Burgoo Festival on Columbus Day weekend in October.
Representing a district that was heavily Italian-American when he was first elected, he was best known for his sponsorship of legislation that made Columbus Day a national holiday.
The squad was named in honor of the event that is celebrated on the particular date of the club's foundation.
A dispute between the Social Security Administration commissioner and the National Association of Secretaries of State about the use of the Social Security database to test the validity of voters led to the shutdown of the database over the Columbus Day holiday weekend.
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That effort failed; however, on March 13, 1919, Gov. Simon Bamberger signed into law a bill designating October 12, Columbus Day, a legal state holiday.