Editing Leif Erikson (section)

==== Leif Erikson Day ====
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In 1929, the [[Wisconsin Legislature]] passed a bill to make 9 October "Leif Erikson Day" in the state, and in the years following, several other states adopted laws to observe the day.<ref name="Hansen">{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.nb.no/leiveriksson/leiv_carl.html |chapter=Leif Erikson Comes to the Front |title=My Minneapolis |first=Carl Gustav Otto |last=Hansen |author-link=Carl G. O. Hansen |location=Minneapolis |year=1956 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091207042512/https://www.nb.no/leiveriksson/leiv_carl.html |archive-date=7 December 2009}}</ref> In 1935, legislation was introduced to the [[United States Congress]] requesting federal observance of the day. Before the legislation was passed, it was amended so that the observance would only occur in 1935<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=16 September 1935 |title=Leif Erikson Day Oct. 9 Proclaimed |work=The Green Bay Press-Gazette |location=Green Bay, WI |page=5 }}</ref> (which it was, following a proclamation that year by President President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/llsalvol.llsal_049/?sp=3718 |last=Roosevelt |first=Franklin D. |author-link=Franklin D. Roosevelt |title=The Statutes at Large of the United States of America from January 1935 to June 1936. Vol 49, part 1, pages 3468–3469 |publisher=Government Printing Office}}</ref> In the subsequent decades, a number of unsuccessful attempts were made to pass legislation requesting Leif Erikson Day be proclaimed annually by the president.<ref>{{cite report |last=Tollefson |first=Thor C. |author-link=Thor C. Tollefson |date=4 March 1964 |title=Leif Erikson Day: Hearings before Subcommittee No. 4 of the Committee on the Judiciary. House of Representatives. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ID0vAAAAMAAJ |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington |page=5 |access-date=30 July 2023 |quote=For quite a few years, and even prior to the time that I first came to Congress, similar resolutions had been introduced, seeking to have October 9 declared Leif Erikson Day. All of the previous efforts have been unsuccessful.}}</ref> Proponents eventually succeeded, when, in 1964, the Congress authorized and requested the president to proclaim 9 October of each year as "Leif Erikson Day".<ref name="dregni"/> In the years since, each president has issued an annual proclamation calling for observance of the day.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Guttormsen |first1=Torgim Sneve |date=2018 |title=Valuing Immigrant Memories as Common Heritage: The Leif Erikson Monument in Boston |journal=[[History & Memory]] |publisher=Indiana University Press |volume=30 |issue=2 |page=99 |doi=10.2979/histmemo.30.2.04|s2cid=166186978 }}</ref>

The Sagas do not give the exact date of Leif's landfall in America, but state only that it was in the fall of the year. At the suggestion of Christian A. Hoen of [[Edgerton, Wisconsin]], 9 October was settled upon for Leif Erikson Day, as that already was a historic date for Norwegians in America, the ship ''[[Restauration (ship)|Restaurationen]]'' having arrived in [[New York Harbor]] on 9 October 1825<ref name=Hansen/><ref>{{cite press release|title=Leif Erikson Day, 2009|publisher=[[White House Office of the Press Secretary]]|date=7 October 2009|first=Barack|last=Obama |author-link=Barack Obama|access-date=20 November 2011|url= https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-leif-erikson-day |url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170214182413/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-leif-erikson-day |archive-date=14 February 2017}}</ref> from [[Stavanger]] with the first organized party of Norwegian immigrants.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Aarek |first=Hans Eirik |date=2000 |title=A Short History of the Troms Quakers And their Emigration to America |journal=[[Norwegian-American Studies]] |volume=35 |page=92 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |doi=10.1353/nor.2000.a799212 |s2cid=258610849 |quote=Conflict with the Norwegian authorities was one of the main motivations for emigrating to America. Quakers were not allowed to live everywhere in Norway...This led to the first organized emigration in 1825.}}</reF>