Historians of Dating.mobi, What's a historical fact people refuse to accept?

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That Christopher Columbus didnt discover America




Columbus didn’t “discover” America — he never set foot in North America.

During four separate trips that started with the one in 1492, Columbus landed on various Caribbean islands that are now the Bahamas as well as the island later called Hispaniola. He also explored the Central and South American coasts. But he didn’t reach North America, which, of course, was already inhabited by Native Americans, and he never thought he had found a new continent. You may also remember that it is believed that Norse explorer Leif Erikson reached Canada perhaps 500 years before Columbus was born, and there are some who believe that Phoenician sailors crossed the Atlantic much earlier than that.

And here’s something he did do that you may not know:

* Columbus was a brutal viceroy and governor of the Caribbean islands on which he did land.

He committed atrocities against native peoples on the islands and decimated their populations while he also terrorized Spanish colonists, according to the biography “Columbus” by Laurence Bergreen.

Why do we celebrate Columbus Day?

The first Columbus Day celebration recorded in the United States was in New York on October 12th, 1792, held to honor Italian-American heritage. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937 proclaimed October 12th to be Columbus Day, a national holiday. In 1971, the holiday date was changed to the second Monday in October.

For various reasons, many places have changed the name of the holiday. Berkeley, California, replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day in 1992 to honor the original inhabitants of the islands where Columbus landed. In 1989, South Dakota started calling the holiday Native American Day. Alabama celebrates a combination of Columbus Day and American Indian Heritage Day, and Hawaii calls it Discovery Day. Other countries also celebrate Columbus with different holidays; for example, in the Bahamas, it is called Discovery Day, and as DÃ*a de la Hispanidad and Fiesta Nacional in Spain.

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@TheCelt: A little off topic, but have you seen the series "Vikings"? It airs here on the History Channel....maybe u can torrent it. Its pretty good.

@WalkSoftly: no i seldom watch whats on tv anymore , the ad breaks bug the F,uck out of me lol , but i have the history channel though so i'll check it out the next time its on

@TheCelt: Yea....its a fictional series but follows historical guidelines....beats most of whats on tv here lol

@WalkSoftly: yeah i think i remember seeing an ad for it alright , but im not sure if it was on the history channel over here though cuz im looking at the history channel now and all they are showing all day is repeats of pawn stars and cajun pawn stars and storage wars and shipping wars , shows like that is all that the history channel over here seem to show anymore so maybe it gets shown on one of the other dicovery type channels that i have idk but i'll definitely keep an eye out for it