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Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
EVENT NAME:
Friendship Day (PR/VI)(1492)
EVENT CATEGORIES:
Anniversaries , Travel & Tourism
Culture & Art , Politics
Mexico & Central America , United States
Dates Active:
Begins: Oct 12, 2022
Ends: Oct 12, 2022
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Friendship Day is an official holiday in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. It is their version of Columbus Day and celebrates the friendship of the island people.

It commemorates the events of October 12, 1492, when Christopher Columbus and his crew made landfall and thought they had found a new way to India. It would take time for him to realize he had found an entirely new continent.

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