Columbus Day became a national holiday in the US in 1934, although three states don't celebrate it, which sounds like a great pub quiz question to us (they're Hawaii, South Dakota and Nevada).
Columbus Day Parade in New York City is to take place on October 11, 2010. The parade is sure to be packed again this year with popular singers, dancers and colorful floats visitors from Italy, which will be in the parade and program in hand today was a prelude to the agenda of Monday’s eventsinclude a mass high Soler at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the annual parade of Columbus Day on Fifth Avenue, which will be broadcast on WNBC in New York.