" Columbus won the national contest " America in Bloom " in 2006, and in 2004 it was named one of " The Ten Most Playful Towns " by Nick Jr. Family Magazine.

In 2010, Columbus won a Great American Main Street Award from the National Trust by Historic Preservation.

Mary Katherine Campbell, Miss Columbus, Ohio, won in both 1922 and 1923, and was also first runner-up in 1924.

The production won a number of awards from the American College Theatre Festival XXIX at the Riffe Center, Columbus, Ohio, and subsequently opened the 1997 festival in the Kennedy Center, returning to Dayton that fall, where it played in the Victoria Theatre in Dayton.

The Sounds won the series two games to one before advancing to the Southern League championship series against the Columbus Astros.

On October 3, 1920, the Triangles won what could be considered the very first APFA / NFL game, with a 14-0 defeat of the Columbus Panhandles at Triangle Park.

The team only won two games against NFL opponents during its entire history, both in the 1921 season, and both were relatively weak opponents: the Tonawanda Kardex, whose match against Rochester was their only game in the league, and the Columbus Panhandles, who would go 0-8 that year and end up at the bottom of the league standings.

Prior to that, the Columbus Bullies of the American Football League ( 1940 ) played the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1941 in a three-game series, which Columbus won, 2 games to 1.

The Crew won the 2002 Lamar Hunt U. S. Open Cup by defeating the Los Angeles Galaxy by a score of 1 to 0 at Columbus Crew Stadium.

The Roughnecks then won three of their next four games, including their first home win on December 14, against the Columbus Landsharks.

Instead, the Blue Bombers were invited to play the Columbus Bullies of the American Football League of 1940 ; although Columbus won the three-game series, 2 games to 1, the one game Winnipeg won gives them a distinction of being one of only two current CFL teams to have defeated a top-level professional American football team ( the other being the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who defeated the modern-day Buffalo Bills in a 1961 game ).

He won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea ( 1942 ), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography ( 1959 ).

As a Columbus High School sophomore he hit cleanup for a baseball team that won a state championship.

His next three elections he won handily: He won in 2000 against Larry K. Nelson, 60 percent to 37 percent ; in 2002 against Craig Columbus, getting 61 percent of the vote ; and in 2004 against Justice Elizabeth Rogers, getting 60 percent.

Fedorov gained fame in the NHL for his unique style of play with the Detroit Red Wings, where he won 3 Stanley Cups before tenures with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Columbus Blue Jackets, and lastly the Washington Capitals, playing in over 1, 200 NHL games and 483 goals in the NHL.

The Power won the 2007 SAL Northern Division title, but lost in the league championship series to the Columbus Catfish in three-straight games.

The 2007 event was held at Lahey Family Fun Park in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, and was won by Rod Miller from Columbus, Ohio.

At the age of 15, while a student at West High School ( Columbus, Ohio ), she won a talent contest sponsored by local television station WTVN.

The Columbus Männerchor, a singing group, was established in 1848, and as early as 1852, won a ribbon for their talent at the North American Sangerfest.

* Columbus ( song ), a song by the band Kent from their album Tillbaka till samtiden

They played their first Western League game at Bennett Park on April 28, 1896, defeating the Columbus Senators 17 – 2.

John Gartner's book The Hypomanic Edge claims notable people including Christopher Columbus, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Carnegie, Howard Zinn and Louis B. Mayer owe their innovation and drive, as well as their eccentricities, to hypomanic temperaments.

Korn made their first Pointfest appearance on May 15, 2011, at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Maryland Heights, Missouri, and their second Rock on the Range appearance on May 21, 2011, at Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.

When she was two she was introduced to Bongo, a 19 month old male from Africa, and on February 1, 1968, their first of three offspring was born, a female named Emmy, named by the zoo after the mayor of Columbus, M. E. " Jack " Sensenbrenner.

Columbus, as his immediate successor in Padua, and afterwards professor at Rome, distinguished himself by rectifying and improving the anatomy of the bones, by giving correct accounts of the shape and cavities of the heart, of the pulmonary artery and aorta and their valves, and tracing the course of the blood from the right to the left side of the heart, by a good description of the brain and its vessels, and by correct understanding of the internal ear, and the first good account of the ventricles of the larynx.

The Spanish explorers and settlers who came after Columbus found that the Arawak proved easier to conquer than the Carib, who fought hard to maintain their freedom.

In New York City, on April 30, 1951, the Board of Directors of the Knights of Columbus adopted a resolution to amend the text of their Pledge of Allegiance at the opening of each of the meetings of the 800 Fourth Degree Assemblies of the Knights of Columbus by addition of the words " under God " after the words " one nation.

Around the same time in New York City, a family from Vetschau, Germany, at Richard Hellmann's delicatessen on Columbus Avenue, featured his wife's homemade recipe in salads sold in their deli.

Today American Indian groups, such as the International Indian Treaty Council, hold ceremonies on the island, most notably, their " Sunrise Gatherings " every Columbus Day and Thanksgiving Day.

On April 8, with a shootout loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Blackhawks clinched their first 100-point season in 17 years.

The Blue Jackets play their home games at Nationwide Arena in downtown Columbus, which opened in 2000.

The voters of Columbus were considering a referendum to build a publicly financed arena, a major step toward approval of their NHL bid.

Diego Álvarez Chanca, a physician on Columbus ' second voyage to the West Indies in 1493, brought the first chili peppers to Spain, and first wrote about their medicinal effects in 1494.

* In the book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card, after traveling back through time to 15th century Central America, the character Hunahpu plays the part of a messenger of " The Lords of Xibalba " to his Indian ancestors, as part of a plan to change their beliefs and create a less-aggressive alternative future.

Many made their way to Bloomington, then east to hilly country, or they reached Jackson County and came north into future Brown County on the Sparks Ferry Road, or west from Columbus in Bartholomew County.

Another popular Dewey Beach event, which occurs every Columbus Day weekend in October, is Greyhounds Reach The Beach, where thousands of rescued greyhounds and their owners congregate.

When the outbreak of war came in 1861, the industries of Columbus expanded their production and Columbus became one of the most important centers of industry in the Confederacy.

One such organization, the Knights of Columbus, chose that name in part because it saw Christopher Columbus as a fitting symbol of Catholic immigrants ' right to citizenship: one of their own, a fellow Catholic, had discovered America.

Many Italian-Americans observe Columbus Day as a celebration of their heritage, the first occasion being in New York City on October 12, 1866.

* 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.

Amerigo Vespucci () ( March 9, 1454February 22, 1512 ) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus ' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians.

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.

Most of the kinds commonly eaten fresh or dried, those of the genus Phaseolus, come originally from the Americas, being first seen by a European when Christopher Columbus, during his exploration, of what may have been the Bahamas, found them growing in fields.

The known history of Cuba predates Christopher Columbus ' landing on the island during his first voyage of discovery on 28 October 1492.

Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the Americas, sailed south from what is now the Bahamas to explore the northeast coast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola.

During his first voyage in 1492, instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, Columbus landed in the Bahamas archipelago, at a locale he named San Salvador.

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas ( having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century ), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America, inaugurating a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries.

In its first series it was a single-game cup, played each year at minor-league Cooper Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, was staged just days before the start of each new Major League Baseball season.

When the road reached Columbus, Tipton constructed the first bypass road ever built ; it detoured south around the west side of Columbus enroute to Seymour.

Joseph McKinney was the first to plot the town of Columbus, but no date was recorded.

The first railroad in Indiana reached Columbus from Madison, Indiana in 1844.

The Caribbean Sea was an unknown body of water to the populations of Eurasia until 1492, when Christopher Columbus first sailed into Caribbean waters on a quest to find a sea route to Asia.

Christopher Columbus reached the island of Hispaniola on his first voyage, in December 1492.

The first major slave revolt in the Americas occurred in Santo Domingo during 1522, when slaves led an uprising in the sugar plantation of admiral Don Diego Colón, son of Christopher Columbus.

* 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

* 1956 – Colo, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity, is born at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio.

Thomas opened his first Wendy's in Columbus, Ohio, November 15, 1969.

His first work, Columbus before the Council of Salamanca was purchased by the Düsseldorf Art Union.

The first Europeans arrived in the expeditions of Christopher Columbus, shortly before 1500.

In 1498 French Guiana was first visited by Europeans when Christopher Columbus sailed to the region on his third voyage and named it the " Land of pariahs ".

The first North American high film festival was the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, also known as The Chris Awards, held in 1953.