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Show Genoa Sailor Began Cruise j On August 3 Songs have been composed. Innumerable In-numerable stories written and national holidays declared In honor of October 12, Columbus day. But the world, apparently, has forgotten August 3. As every good 'American knows, Christopher Columbus discovered the western hemisphere hemis-phere when he landed October 12, 1492, on an Island of the Bahamas Ba-hamas off the Atlantic coast. But his long voyage began August Au-gust 3 and. as one local historian pointed out. August 3 should be just as important as October 12, for If Columbus hadn't started out he couldn't very well have landed. Heretical as this opinion may appear to faithful Columbus day celebrators. It is no worse than the treatment accorded the Genoa Ge-noa mariner after his momentous discovery. He was thrown into prison by Jealous rivals and died there May 20. 1506. |