First Veterans Day Proclamation

On October 8th, 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first Veterans Day Proclamation.

It was on June 4, 1926, that Congress passed a resolution to observe the anniversary of the end of World War I, Nov. 11, 1918.

In 1938, before the holiday was known as Veterans Day, Congress made Nov. 11 a legal holiday called Armistice Day.