Columbus Day

 Christopher Columbus was born October 30, 1451 and died May 20, 1506. He was a Genoese explorer and navigator born in the Republic of Genoa which is now Italy. Funded by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. His efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola started the Spanish colonization of the Americas. On October 13, 1492 he landed in the Caribbean becoming the first European to do so. Since then people in the United States have been celebrating it and Columbus Day first became an official state holiday in Colorado in 1906, and became a federal holiday in the United States in 1937.

Reflection: I think that Christopher Columbus had a very lasting impact on the United States and other countries on the Americas. I think that Columbus also must have been a good sailor to get to a new continent on uncharted waters using the simple technology they had.