Day After Day

I did not know what today was, other than Monday, until I woke up and was informed that it is Columbus Day. I am not sure if I have to capitalize the word day but any english teachers out there can correct me. My roommates have the day off as we celebrate guy, possibly itlian, running ashore on the Bahamas and according to wikipedia "Columbus visited San Salvador in the Bahamas (which he was convinced was Japan), Cuba (which he thought was China) and Haiti (where he found gold)." Belief in a man like Columbus can be an example of how some people's knowledge of history is merely anecdotal. As Robert Anton Wilson would say "I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions." And I suspect that words like that suggest an itellect of more depth than those who will follow and believe ideas without perspective.