The first Columbus Day celebration took place on October
12, 1792, when the Columbian Order of New York, better
known as Tammany Hall, held an event to commemorate
the 300th anniversary of the historic landing.

 
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Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto)
(August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023)

Singer Tony Bennet received many accolades,
including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime
Achievement Award, and two Primetime
Emmy Awards. Bennett was named an NEA
Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree
and founded the Frank Sinatra School of the
Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York. He sold
more than 50 million records worldwide and
earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

At 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand
and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first
explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at
29,035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth.

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Columbus Day is a national holiday in the United States that commemorates the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492.

It is observed on the second Monday in October, and many Americans take the day off from work or school to celebrate.

In recent years, some have called for the holiday to be
renamed Indigenous Peoples’ Day and for it to be used
as an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of Native Americans to American society.

A statue of Christopher Columbus stands at Columbus Circle
in front of Union Station in Washington, D.C. The statue was dedicated to Columbus in June 1912.