 | Columbus Day Parade (5)
The first recorded celebration of Columbus Day in the USA was held by the Tammany Society, also known as the the Colombian Order, in New York on October 12th 1792. The date of Columbus's arrival in the Americas is celebrated in Mexico and in some Latino communities in the USA as the Dia de la Raza "day of the race", commemorating the first encounters of Europe and the Americas which would produce the new Mestizo race. The day was first celebrated in Argentina in 1917, Venezuela in 1921, Chile in 1923, and Mexico in 1928. Discovery Day in the Bahamas, Hispanic Day in Spain, and Día de la Resistencia Indígena in Venezuela, commemorate the same event.Columbus day also falls near Spain's national holiday, October 12. Some communities, such as Berkeley, California have renamed the holiday to 'Indigenous Peoples Day', celebrated also in Canada
| |  | Hispanic Columbus Day Parade (1)
Since 1964, the Hispanic Columbus Day Parade in New York City is on the Sunday before Columbus Day each year, on 5th Ave. in NYC. The United Hispanic American Parade representing 52 different Hispanic organizations marches up Fifth Avenue from 44th Street to 79th Street.
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