Saturday, June 8, 2013

On this date in Minnesota History: June 8

June 8, 1925 – “President Calvin Coolidge spoke to an audience of over 80,000 Norwegian Americans at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds [on this date]. He praised their contributions to American society and even acknowledged their claim that a Norwegian explorer actually discovered America long before Christopher Columbus. A local journalist reported the crowd’s response: ‘The great roar that rose from Nordic throats to Thor and Odin above the lowering gray clouds told that the pride of the race had been touched.’ Coolidge’s speech was a peak event of the four-day Norse-American Immigration Centennial Celebration, which drew nearly 200,000 Norwegian Americans from the United States and Canada.”

http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/pubs/nas/volume33/vol33_10.htm




President Calvin Coolidge

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