When was columbus day 2011

Wray is an associate professor of sociology at Temple University whose research focuses on race and ethnicity.

City Council cannot appoint official city holidays, but can only mark observances. The difference: On official city holidays, services shut down; on others, business carries on as usual. Yet, without the designation of an official city holiday, few know the recognition exists.

The true history of his conduct is, in fact, infamous. According to CBS3, the city was also pursing codifying these changes in its Collective Bargaining Agreements with the four municipal worker unions. There also remain legal challenges. The event will be held at Shackamaxon, also known as Penn Treaty Park. Beach St. This article has been updated since it first posted.

Staff reporter Laura McCrystal contributed to this story. Skip to content Share Icon. Instead, it illuminated a continent then unknown to Europe, and established an unbreakable bond between two distant lands. These explorers, and countless others that followed them, encountered indigenous peoples that had lived in the Western hemisphere for tens of thousands of years. On this day, we also remember the tragic hardships these communities endured.

We honor their countless and ongoing contributions to our Nation, and we recommit to strengthening the tribal communities that continue to enrich the fabric of American life. Columbus returned to the Americas three more times after his first historic voyage, and his journey has been followed by millions of immigrants, including our Nation's earliest settlers and Founders. Born in Genoa, Italy, Christopher Columbus was the first in a proud tradition of Italians to cross the Atlantic to our shores.

Today, we recognize their indelible influence on our country and celebrate the remarkable ways Italian-Americans have shaped the American experience. It also contains links to selected historical resources on Columbus Day and the Italian American experience. Columbus Day is a federal holiday commemorating Christopher Columbus's historic voyage landing in the Americas on October 12, Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, born in Genoa.

With funding from the Spanish crown, he led a three-ship expedition that set out from Palos, Spain, on August 3, Ten weeks later, on October 12, , the expedition sighted land.

The next day, Columbus and his crew set foot on an island in the Bahamas. The Tammany Society, also known as the Columbian Order, organized the celebration, which included the unveiling of a foot obelisk dedicated to Columbus and his achievements.