On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice was declared between the allied nations and Germany in World War I. A year later, President Woodrow Wilson signed a ...

Nov. 11, will mark the 107th anniversary of the signing of the World War I armistice that ceased hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the ...

World War I ended in Russia on March 3, 1918, with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The signatories included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Lenin’s Bolshevik regime. Lenin ...

Two years after the surrender of the German Army ended World War I on Nov. 11, 1918, the first official parades to celebrate Armistice Day went to Wyoming Post No. 396, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and ...

Veterans Day has long been observed in the U.S., becoming a holiday nearly a century ago. The name has evolved, once as a celebration recognizing the end of World War I. The name and purpose ...