Leif Erikson Day
Vikings reached Newfoundland five hundred years before Columbus.
Leif Erikson Day is a federal observance in the United States, established by Congress in 1964 and signed into law by President Johnson. It honors Leif Erikson, the Norse explorer who established a settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, around 1000 CE, roughly 500 years before Col