There is a Leif Erickson’s Day - I think its October 12 or 11th.
But Leif Ericsson wasn’t the first European we know of to see the “New World”.
The man who did was Bjarni Herjolfsson and his crew who were blown off course on a trip to Greenland. Unfortunately they didn’t land - they needed to get back to Greenland. But he told Ericsson what he had seen and set the stage.
So actually we should have a Bjarni Herjolfsson’s Day instead of a Leif Ericsson’s Day.
Thanks. We have an above-average statue to Erickson on the Commonwealth Ave. mall in Boston and it might be a good site for such a commemoration on Oct.11th, as you indicate.