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| | HistoryLink Essay:King Olav V of Norway visits Seattle on May 1-4, 1969. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | King Olav V of Norway visits Seattle on May 1-4, 1969. |
 | | On the second day of the visit, the King visited the University of Washington College of Fisheries, attended a ceremony at the statue of Leif Ericson at Shilshole Bay, greeted retirees at the Norse Home, watched sea otters at the Woodland Park Zoo, and ate lunch at the Space Needle. |
 | | At the UW, a group of demonstrators waited for the king with signs reading "Scandanavia Unite as a Neutral Republic" and scuffled with another group of students who tore up their signs. |
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