The Hometown Treasure November 2012 | Page 23

November 11, 1918, WWI fighting ceased when an armistice (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. November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day. The original concept was for a day observed with parades and public meeti