Discovery Day Discovery Day Discovery Day is the name of several holidays commemorating the discovery of land, gold, and other significant national discoveries. In the Bahamas Discovery Day was a public holiday on October 12, that celebrated the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World in 1492. It coincided with the Columbus Day celebrations of many other countries in the Americas. Columbus's initial landfall was on the now-unknown island of Guanahani in the Bahamas in 1492. It was last observed as a holiday in 2012 and has been replaced by National Heroes Day holiday, which is a public holiday observed on
Day of the Programmer day is chosen because 1024 = 2, and this does not have leap year issue. Day of the Programmer The Day of the Programmer is an international professional day that is celebrated on the 256th (hexadecimal 100th, or the 2th) day of each year (September 13 during common years and on September 12 in leap years). It is officially recognized in Russia. The number 256 (2) was chosen because it is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte, a value well-known to programmers. 256 is also the highest power of two that is less