VIDEO: How Armistice Day Became Veterans Day – Armchair Historian

Armchair Historian

Griffin Johnsen, the Armchair Historian, explains how a celebration of peace became riots, reform, and remembrance.

Today in History: Born on April 10

Hugo Grotius, Dutch statesman and scholar.

Matthew C. Perry, American naval officer, opened Japan to trade with the west.

Lew Wallace, Civil War general, lawyer, diplomat and author of Ben Hur.

A.E. (George William Russell), Irish poet and mystic.

Frances Perkins, U.S. labor secretary, first female cabinet member.

Clare Boothe Luce, reporter, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.

Robert B. Woodward, synthetic chemist.

Omar Sharif (Michael Shalhoub), actor (Dr. Zhivago).

David Halberstam, New York Times correspondent, author, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1964.

Paul Theroux, author (The Great Railway Bazaar).