Columbus Day was just to make the Italian immigrants happy back in the early 1900s. The real irony is DNA testing of Columbus's bones done this past year indicate he was really western European, not Italian at all! Columbus Day is a ripoff for sure for guys like Leif Erikson and the people who first arrive in the Americans some 15,000 to 25,000 years ago. Some from Asia and new evidence show Europeans too on the east coast.
Columbus Day was just to make the Italian immigrants happy back in the early 1900s. The real irony is DNA testing of Columbus's bones done this past year indicate he was really western European, not Italian at all! Columbus Day is a ripoff for sure for guys like Leif Erikson and the people who first arrive in the Americans some 15,000 to 25,000 years ago. Some from Asia and new evidence show Europeans too on the east coast.