Before it became Veterans Day, November 11th was known as Armistice Day. The title was bestowed on this day because of what happened on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918--the end of The Great War. The Great War is now known as World War I, though at the time it was regarded as the war to end all wars. A year later, President Wilson proclaimed this day as a commemoration of Armistice Day.
More information can be found on the History of Veterans Day page on the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs site.
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