10.13.07
What About Columbus Day?
Happened upon this about Columbus Day.
Columbus was not the first European to successfully cross the Atlantic. Viking sailors are believed to have established a short-lived settlement in Newfoundland sometime in the 11th century, and scholars have argued for a number of other possible pre-Columbian landings. Columbus, however, initiated the lasting encounter between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere.
Notice the answer to the question of who got here first and why Columbus Day.