Holiday here: Columbus arrived at America on a day like this

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One of the first tales that dealed with History that I learned was how Christopher Columbus had reached America on October, 12th, 1492. The story was embellised with fairy tale parts such as the one that the Queen of Spain sold her jewels to be part of this great adventure. I was small when I first listened to it and some years ago I went to see how Columbus ships were when on a vacation in the south of Spain. I would not go anywhere, not even across a lake, in such small ships. Columbus is one of my great heroes. I am sorry that as technology advances, History recedes and many children don´t know who he was. Not even America was names after him because it took other people to know that what he had discovered was a new continent. Do you have a holiday today? On my country it is called El Dia de la Raza