It stars Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, Leif Erickson and William Conrad.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas ( having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century ), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America, inaugurating a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries.

Wood and Leif Andersson, New Morphometric Data for Fresh Lunar Craters, 1978, Proceedings 9th Lunar and Planet.

Isabella and Ferdinand authorized the 1492 expedition of Christopher Columbus, who became the first known European to reach the New World since Leif Ericson.

* 1986 – Leif Erickson, American actor ( b. 1911 )

* For Eric Leif Davin's Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965, MacLean supplied him with a detailed description of her negotiations with John W. Campbell in regards to the publication of her earliest stories.

An ingenious navigation method is detailed in Viking Navigation Using the Sunstone, Polarized Light and the Horizon Board by Leif K. Karlsen.

Past presidents include Jørgen Randers, co-author of the Club of Rome Report Limits to Growth ; Peter Lorange, former president of IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland ; Leif Frode Onarheim, a former member of the Norwegian Parliament and current CEO of leading Norwegian fish farming company Marine Harvest.

* 1911 – Leif Erickson, American actor and singer ( d. 1986 )

Amundsen disappeared on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission with Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot René Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen, looking for missing members of Nobile's crew, whose new airship Italia had crashed while returning from the North Pole.

Leif Larsen | Leif " Shetland " Larsen, Norwegian leader of the Shetland Bus operations in World War II, the most highly decorated Allies of World War II | allied naval officer of the war.

It made over 200 trips across the sea with Leif Larsen, the most highly decorated allied naval officer of the war, making 52 of them.

In about 986, Bjarni Herjólfsson, Leif Ericson and Þórfinnr Karlsefni from Greenland reached North America and attempted to settle the land they called Vinland.

In spring, Leif returns to Greenland with a shipload of timber towing a boatload of grapes.

Thorstein, Leif's brother, marries Gudrid, widow of the captain rescued by Leif, then leads a third expedition to bring home Thorvald's body, but is driven off course and spends the whole summer wandering the Atlantic.

In spring the Greenlanders return home with a good cargo, but Leif finds the truth about the Icelanders.

In the other version of the story, Eiríks saga rauða or the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif Ericsson accidentally discovers the new land when travelling from Norway back to Greenland after a visit to his overlord, King Olaf Tryggvason, who commissions him to spread Christianity in the colony.

Vikings under Leif Eriksson, heir to Erik the Red, reached North America, and set up a short-lived settlement in present-day L ' Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

* Leif Ericsson, discoverer of Vínland, son of Erik the Red.

* 1959 – Ruth Ann Swenson, American soprano

* Carpenter, Ruth Ann ; Finley, Carrie E. Healthy Eating Every Day.

* 1935 – Ruth Ann Minner, American politician, businesswoman and 72nd Governor of Delaware

* January 17 – Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware

She meets Sister Husband ( Stockard Channing ), a woman who runs the Welcome Wagon in town, and mistakenly believes Novalee to be her long-lost relative Ruth Ann.

Novalee goes to Sister Husband's house and explains that she is not Ruth Ann.

Seven of Delaware's governors have come from Milford: Daniel Rogers ( who served 1797-99 ), Joseph Haslet ( 1811 – 14 ), William Tharp ( 1847 – 1851 ), Peter F. Causey ( 1855 – 59 ), William Burton ( 1859 – 63 ), William T. Watson ( 1895 – 97 ), and Ruth Ann Minner ( 2001 – 09 ).

In October 1995 it was announced that Mrs. Ruth Ann Holland has left $ 500, 000 to the Library Foundation in her will.

Grant Town is also the location of a number of the stories of the West Virginia ghost story anthology The Telltale Lilac Bush, by Fairmont State University professor Ruth Ann Musick.

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Yoakam was born in Pikeville, Kentucky, the son of Ruth Ann, a key-punch operator, and David Yoakam, a gas-station owner.

The opening night cast included Shirley Booth as Ruth and Jo Ann Sayers as Eileen, with Richard Quine and Morris Carnovsky in supporting roles.

Other reports say that Cohn also approached Ina Claire, Tallulah Bankhead, Ruth Chatterton, Constance Bennett, Ann Harding, Kay Francis and Joan Crawford.

After more than 12, 000 responses from people aged 4 to 85, the paper ultimately hired two: Jeffrey Zaslow, then a 28-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter, and Diane Crowley, a 47-year-old lawyer, teacher and daughter of Ruth Crowley, who had been the original Ann Landers columnist from 1943 until 1955.

Many of the top entertainers of the era ( including W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Ann Pennington, Bert Williams, Will Rogers, Ruth Etting, Ray Bolger, Helen Morgan, Marilyn Miller, Ed Wynn, Gilda Gray, Nora Bayes, Sophie Tucker, and others ) appeared in the shows.

* 1991 – Eating Between the Lines ISBN 0-7704-2705-7 ( nominated: Ruth Schwartz Award ; winner: Book-of-the-Year CACL, Ann Conner-Brimer Award )

to Zed: A Canadian Abecedarium ISBN 0-88995-222-1 ( nominated: Mr. Christie Award, Ann Conner-Brimer Award, Ruth Schwartz Award )

* 2003 – Ann and Seamus ISBN 0-88899-561-X ( nominated: Governor General's Award, Mr. Christie Award, Ruth Schwartz Award and five others ; made into a folk opera of the same name )

In 1996, Lobo and her late mother, Ruth Ann Lobo, collaborated on a book entitled The Home Team, which dealt with Ruth Ann's battle with breast cancer.

* June 15 – Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus is shot in Chicago by deranged fan Ruth Ann Steinhagen.

In 1987, he and his first wife, Ruth Ann, wrote Building For The Master: By Design ( ISBN 0-940609-00-2 ).

Dallas also has helped launch the careers of such American singers as Renée Fleming, Diana Soviero, and Ruth Ann Swenson.

Kaufman, appointed by Governor Ruth Ann Minner to fill the vacancy created by Joe Biden ( who resigned to become Vice President of the United States ), was not a candidate in the special election.