In British pubs and country inns/restaurants

 Tonight is 

Guy Fawkes Night

[ English-Heritage.org.UK

"The Real Story of

Bonfire Night" ]

November 11 (annually) will no longer be renamed in Trump-Vance Administration -- early in Trump-Vance Executive Proclamations, new names were proposed for Memorial Day & Veterans Day

The announced

Victory Day for World War I

previously known as

"Veterans Day" will be not

be an official renaming

according to Press Secy. 

Caroline Leavitt

as she clarified to ABC News

Friday May 2, 2025.

Such renaming that establishes

a federal holiday or patriotic/

national observance would require

passage of a law by both House

and Senate (see Article I, Constitution).

State Offices (a state holiday) to be closed in MICHIGAN

Yes -- Michigan offices will 

be closed

on Election Day

(Nov. 3 this year) and

Veterans Day Nov. 11

(every Year)

but

NOT -- Oct. 12 (Columbus Day)

___________________

yes -- both Thanksgiving Thursday

and the day following (Friday)

Xmas Eve and Xmas Day

New Year's Eve (Dec. 31 annually)

C-Span (Thursday 11 a.m.) Melania Trump with highest honor for OLESHKY evacuation and her work Thursday with Ukrainian and Russian officials

c-span.org/2026 11 a.m.

Thursday Nov. 5, 2026

1600 Pensylvania Ave., D.C.

FLOTUS to make remarks -- be keynote

speaker : on

Oleshky cease-fire

between Russian aggressors and fellow

combatant/belligerent 

Ukraine 

BBC.com/news/world

THURSDAY Nov. 5, 2026

1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,

D.C.

Texas 15th Congressional District tossed out MAGA GOP woman lawmaker for a Tejano star (Bobby Pulido)

 USA today.com/story/entertainment/

music/

2026/11/04/

bobby-pulido-texas-elections-

result-congress-race-

92608005007

When did the CEASE-FIRE of Armistice Day take effect? At conclusion of Nov. fighting all the way to 1918

Nov. 11 is Veterans Day, honoring Americans who 

have served their country in the armed forces. 

November 11 was originally called Armistice Day 

because it was on this date in 1918 the Allies and Germany 

signed an armistice agreement to end hostilities 

on the Western Front of the First World War.

By late summer 1918, the war had become unpopular among the German people, and it was also becoming increasingly clear that the military would not be able to hold out much longer against Allied offensives. In early October, at the urging of his cabinet, Chancellor Max von Baden sent a telegraph to American President Woodrow Wilson. The chancellor requested a cease-fire agreement between Germany and the Allies, based on Wilson's Fourteen Points address from the previous January. But Wilson refused to negotiate with a Germany that was not democratic, and didn't put much stock in von Baden's assurances that he was moving the country in that direction, especially after a German U-boat sank the Leinster, a British mail ship, killing some 520 civilians. Wilson angrily said he would let the European commanders end the war on their own terms, but that they would not negotiate while Kaiser Wilhelm remained in power. Wilhelm abdicated and fled the country on November 10, and the new civilian government quickly said they would sign an armistice agreement on whatever terms the Allies put forward.

Under the terms of the armistice, Germany was forced to evacuate all of its occupied territories on the Western Front and elsewhere within two weeks, and Allied forces occupied the left bank of the Rhine. The German military was essentially gutted of its supplies, equipment, and ammunition. In addition, Germany had to agree to accept all the blame — and pay all the reparations — for the war. German leaders felt humiliated by what they viewed as overly punitive conditions, but the country was in no position to do anything but agree to the terms. France's representatives, however, made it clear they thought that the terms of the armistice and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles were too lenient.

The armistice was signed outside Paris at 6 a.m. in the railway carriage of Allied commander Ferdinand Foch, and the cease-fire took effect five hours later: at "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."

written and narrated by Garrison Keillor for "Writer's Almanac" (American

Public Media, NPR)

on Nov. 11, 2015

11 years ago

Nevada's Attorney General beats incumbent GOP Governor -- he is first black governor of a state west of the Mississippi River

Aaron Ford

background:

also had been Senate (NEVADA) Majority 

leader, began legislative career in 2012,

practiced law privately

taught math

NPR.org/2026/11/04

NEVADA Governor race FINAL OUTCOME