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It's effectively Italian-American Day.

True. Which is unfortunate because I'd like to think there are/were plenty of Italians and Italian-Americans more worthy of recognition. Dude never got to the mainland of the United States, sailed centuries before there was a United States, and didn't even sail for Italy.

Glancing through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_Americans and I found this Federico Faggin, widely known for designing the first commercial microprocessor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin

Ironically, perhaps, Yale does not take Columbus day.

https://your.yale.edu/work-yale/benefits/paid-time/official-...

It is generally no longer a day off at school, at work, or much of anywhere else. Some cities have renamed it "Indigenous Peoples Day".