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Columbus Day: Sunday October
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On Columbus Day, October 8, members of the Yates family from Sacramento will embark on a bicycle ride that will take them from the Pacific Ocean to the site of the terrorist attacks in Manhattan, NY. The riders will reach "Ground Zero" on Veterans' Day, November 11. The mission of Freedom Ride USA is to create awareness and raise money for the Twin Towers Orphan Fund. 2001-10-07
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Columbus Day isn't particularly celebrated in most of the country, much less Davis. Usually it only affects banks, some small businesses, the post office and other government jobs. Columbus Day is the 12th of October, though some places attach it to the nearest weekend. Students of the Davis Joint Unified School District do not get the day off. Some people think Davis should develop some sort of tradition to celebrate this mostly uncelebrated national holiday.
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In the summer of 1990, 350 Native Americans, representatives from all over the hemisphere, met in Quito, Ecuador, at the first intercontinental gathering of indigenous people in the Americas, to mobilize against the quincentennial celebration of Columbus Day. The following summer, in Davis, California, more than a hundred Native Americans gathered for a follow-up meeting to the Quito conference. They declared October 12, 1992, International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous People.
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In 1905, Colorado became the first state to observe a Columbus Day. Over the next few decades other states followed. In 1937, then-President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed every October 12 as Columbus Day. Since1971, it has been celebrated on the second Monday in October.
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In 1934 President Roosevelt proclaimed October 12 as Columbus Day. It is now celebrated throughout the Americas, in Puerto Rico, Central and South America, and Canada. Columbus Day is now observed on the second Monday in October.
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The first recorded celebration of Columbus Day in the United States took place on October 12, 1792. Organized by The Society of St. Tammany... known as the Columbian Order, it commemorated the 300th anniversary of Columbus's landing.
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