if you're unaware of just how terrible he was, celebrate the day by doing a little research and getting incredibly mad about it or just give him the finger, either way!

He was so brutal that Fifteenth Century Spain told him to chill the fuck out.

theoatmeal.com/comics/colum...

Columbus - enough of an asshole that the people who ran the fucking Spanish Inquisition put him in prison for being a murderous raping piece of shit.

...I refer to him as "ran aground looking for Japan". 😜