History of veterans day

Veterans Day, initially known as Armistice Day, commemorates the end of World War I. The armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, marking the end of the "war to end all wars." The following year, on November 11, 1919, the first Armistice Day was celebrated in the United States.