print email comment close The History of Veterans Day URL: http://www.history.army.mil/faq/vetsday/vetshist.htm Description: A timeline about the history of Veteran's Day. Topics include the first Armistice Day in 1919 (which followed the "implementation of an armistice ... between the Allies and Germany at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of November, 1918)," the changing of the name of the holiday to Veteran's Day in 1954, and how this holiday was designated by the federal government as the first Monday in October from 1971-1977. From the U.S. Army. Publisher: U.S. Army Extra Keywords first one WWI November 11 World War I LII Database Information: Record 22854 created by Maria Brandt on 11/05/2006 Last modification on 05/15/2008 Published: 11/08/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22854