Columbus Day 2008 Calendar : Monday October 13
Columbus Day 2008 Calendar : Monday October 13 is Columbus Day, a federal holiday.
The following public services will be affected
Schools: Public Schools will be closed. Most parochial and suburban schools also will be closed.
•Government offices: Federal, county and city offices will be closed.
•Postal service: No mail delivery.
•Courts: Federal, state and county courts will be closed, except for Cook County Central Bond Court.
•Banks: Most will be closed.
•Parking: Meters must be fed.
•Transit: CTA, Pace and Metra will run on weekday schedules.
Christopher Columbus actually arrived in the New World on October 12th according to the Julian calendar then in use. The modern Gregorian calendar places Columbus Day as October 21st. Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492 in the Julian calendar and October 21, 1492 in the modern Gregorian calendar, as an official holiday. The day is celebrated as Columbus Day in the United States, as DÃa de la Raza (Day of the Race) in many countries in Latin America, as DÃa de las Culturas (Day of the Cultures) in Costa Rica, as Discovery Day in The Bahamas, as DÃa de la Hispanidad (Hispanic Day) and National Day in Spain, and as DÃa de la Resistencia IndÃgena (Day of Indigenous Resistance) in Venezuela.
For most of history, Columbus Day was a celebration of a explorer who took three small ships on what was then a trackless ocean in search of a new trade route to Asia. Instead he found, though he would never realize it, an entirely new land that would eventually become the venue of many nations that were unimagined in 1492, including the United States of America. Columbus Day became, in effect, a celebration of the beginning of what would become the United States.
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