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Show Ericsson Day Former President Nixon proclaimed October 9 as Leif Ericsson Day- in memory of the Viking who sailed to America around the year 1,000. That was almost five hundred years before Columbus Colum-bus reached an island he called San Salvador (Watling Island). FOR MANY years some Americans struggled to prevent recognition of Ericsson's Erics-son's feat, theorizing that to admit his discovery would demean the accomplishment of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Columbus' discovery opened up the New World to Europe, trade, economics and history. |