<Tr> <Th> 2020 date </Th> <Td> October 12 (2020 - 10 - 12) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Frequency </Th> <Td> Annual </Td> </Tr> <P> Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492 . The landing is celebrated as "Columbus Day" in the United States, as "Día de la Raza" ("Day of the Race") in some countries in Latin America, as "Día de la Hispanidad" and "Fiesta Nacional" in Spain, where it is also the religious festivity of la Virgen del Pilar, as Día de las Américas (Day of the Americas) in Belize and Uruguay, as Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural (Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity) in Argentina, and as Giornata Nazionale di Cristoforo Colombo or Festa Nazionale di Cristoforo Colombo in Italy as well as in Little Italys around the world . As the day of remembrance of Our Lady of the Pillar, 12 October had been declared a religious feast day throughout the Spanish Empire in 1730; the secular Fiesta de la Raza Española was first proposed by Faustino Rodríguez - San Pedro y Díaz - Argüelles in 1913 . </P> <P> Columbus Day first became an official state holiday in Colorado in the autumn of 1905, and it became a federal holiday in the United States in 1937 . Celebration of Columbus's voyage in the early United States is recorded from as early as 1792, when the Tammany Society in New York City (for whom it became an annual tradition) and also the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston celebrated the 300th anniversary of Columbus' landing in the New World . President Benjamin Harrison called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus's landing in the New World on the 400th anniversary of the event . During the anniversary in 1892, teachers, preachers, poets and politicians used rituals to teach ideals of patriotism . These rituals took themes such as citizenship boundaries, the importance of loyalty to the nation, and the celebration of social progress . </P>

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