Today is the 340th day of 2023 and the 75th day of autumn. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1492, Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now the Dominican Republic and Haiti. In 1790, the U.S. Congress moved from New York City to Philadelphia. In 1877, the first edition of The Washington Post was published. In 1957, two months after the Soviet Union…