John Di Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus Day Celebration Committee, it was announced yesterday.

New Hampshire figures its peak around Columbus Day and boasts of all its hardwoods including the yellow of the birches.

* Columbus Day

Christopher Columbus arrived at the island during his first voyage to America in 1492, where his flagship, the Santa Maria, sank after running aground on Christmas Day.

* Columbus Day ( Most of United States ) – Second Monday of October

* Columbus Day ( USA )

* 1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York.

* 1962 – Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U. S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities ; 46 dead and at least U. S. $ 230 million in damages

* Earliest day on which Columbus Day can fall, while October 14 is the latest ; observed on the second Monday of October ( United States )

* October – Virgin Islands Puerto Rico Friendship Day / Columbus Day

** The infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U. S. Pacific Northwest with wind gusts up to 170 mph ( 270 km / h ); 46 are killed, 11 billion board feet ( 26 million m³ ) of timber is blown down, with $ 230 million U. S. in damages.

* October 12 – To mark the 400th anniversary Columbus Day holiday, the " Pledge of Allegiance " is first recited in unison by students in U. S. public schools.

* October 12 – The first Columbus Day celebration in the USA is held in New York, 300 years after his arrival in the New World.

Significant windstorms in Clark County include the Columbus Day windstorm of October 12, 1962, and an April 6, 1972 tornado which rated F3 on the Fujita scale, striking a local school.

The original " Pledge of Allegiance " was published in the September 8 issue of the popular children's magazine The Youth's Companion </ em > as part of the National Public-School Celebration of Columbus Day, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas.

Francis Bellamy and Upham had lined up the National Education Association to support the " Youth's Companion " as a sponsor of the Columbus Day observance along with the use of the American flag.

By June 29, 1892, Bellamy and Upham had arranged for Congress and President Benjamin Harrison to announce a proclamation making the public school flag ceremony the center of the Columbus Day celebrations ( this was issued as Presidential Proclamation 335 ).

Subsequently, the Pledge was first used in public schools on October 12, 1892, during Columbus Day observances organized to coincide with the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

" The publication's efforts paid off when Benjamin Harrison declared Wednesday October 12, 1892 to be Columbus Day for which The Youth's Companion made " an official program for universal use in all the schools.

After being reviewed by Upham and other members of The Youth's Companion, the Pledge was approved and put in the official Columbus Day program.

* President Benjamin Harrison's Columbus Day Proclamation

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.

The book was published, and the map revealed to the world, the day before Columbus Day, 1965.

* Brian Agler, former head coach of the Columbus Quest and current head coach for the Seattle Storm

* 2001 to Calgary Roughnecks, New Jersey Storm, Vancouver Ravens & Columbus Landsharks: Randy Mearns, Calgary ( 8th overall ); Marc Landriault, Calgary ( 14th overall ); Lindsay Plunkett, Vancouver ( 16th overall ); Kevin Howard, Calgary ( 30th overall )

For example, the Omaha Storm Chasers ( formerly the Omaha Royals ) have been the Triple-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals since the Royals joined the American League in 1969, but the Columbus Clippers changed affiliations from the New York Yankees to the Washington Nationals in 2007 and are now affiliated with the Cleveland Indians.

Extensive damage caused by the Columbus Day Storm in 1962 caused the owners to consider demolishing the building.

In 1934 the Civilian Conservation Corps built the first trail to the summit, however, it was destroyed in the 1962 Columbus Day Storm.

The trail to the west was originally built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, but was washed out in the Columbus Day Storm of 1962.

Later parts of the old transmitting equipment was loaned to KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon, due to the Columbus Day Storm damage of 1962.

On Sunday, April 21, 2002, eight days after the 2001-2002 NLL Championship Game, the North ( Calgary Roughnecks, Montreal Express, Ottawa Rebel, Rochester Knighthawks, Toronto Rock, Vancouver Ravens ) defeated the South ( Albany Attack, Buffalo Bandits, Columbus Landsharks, New Jersey Storm, New York Saints, Philadelphia Wings, Washington Power ) by a score of 14-10 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.

In 1962, the Columbus Day Storm downed an estimated 140 MMBF of timber and created many log jams on the rivers.

In October 2005, Ron Selesky, formerly of the Arena Football League's Columbus Destroyers, Carolina Cobras and Tampa Bay Storm, as well as the af2's Albany Conquest and Louisville Fire, was hired as the team's second coach.

The Toledo Storm were founded in 1991, joining the East Coast Hockey League for the 1991 – 92 season as an expansion franchise with two other Ohio franchises, the Columbus Chill and Dayton Bombers, and the Raleigh IceCaps of Raleigh, North Carolina.

The Astoria and Hoquiam records were broken by a major storm on December 12, 1995 ( which measured at Astoria ); this event, however, did not generate winds as intense as the Columbus Day Storm of 1962.

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. ( now MetLife ) named the Columbus Day Storm the nation's worst natural disaster of 1962.

* The Weather Doctor-Typhoon Freda: The Columbus Day Storm

* Columbus Day Storm: " Worst Disaster Ever ", Salem Online History

# Redirect Columbus Day Storm of 1962

The KGW-TV tower was a prominent victim of the Northwest's historic, violent Columbus Day Storm on Friday, October 12, 1962.

If Pacific Northwest cyclones competed for " strongest storm on record ," the final round would probably be between the windstorm of January 9, 1880, and the infamous Columbus Day Storm of 1962.

If the articles are taken at face value, then it seems that damage in 1880, at least to timberland and orchard trees, was comparable to the Columbus Day Storm.

* 1962's Typhoon Freda-after becoming extratropical, this storm did significant damage to Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia as the Columbus Day Storm of 1962

John Kaleo ( born February 5, 1971 ) is a retired American football quarterback in the Arena Football League for the Albany Firebirds ( 1993 ), Cleveland Thunderbolts ( 1994 ), St. Louis Stampede ( 1995 – 1996 ), Anaheim Piranhas ( 1997 ), San Jose SaberCats ( 1997 ), New England Sea Wolves ( 1999 ), Tampa Bay Storm ( 2000-2003, 2007 ), Austin Wranglers ( 2004 ), Los Angeles Avengers ( 2005 ), and Columbus Destroyers ( 2006 ).