Veterans Day Closures in Palos Verdes

Schools and offices in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District will be closed Monday in observance of Veterans Day, a federal holiday.

Rolling Hills Estates City Hall will be closed. Rolling Hills City Hall will be closed, and Monday night's Rolling Hills City Council meeting was canceled. Palos Verdes Estates City Hall will be closed; however, the Palos Verdes Estates Parkland Commission is still scheduled to meet.

It's unclear whether Rancho Palos Verdes City Hall will be closed Monday.

Libraries in the Palos Verdes Library District will remain on their normal schedules for Veterans Day.

Most banks, courthouses and other government offices will be closed, and there will be no residential or business mail delivery.

Veterans Day has its roots in a proclamation issued by President Woodrow Wilson in November 1919, a year after World War I ended, designating Nov. 11 as Armistice Day. States soon starting declaring Nov. 11 a legal holiday. Congress made it a federal holiday in 1938, dedicated to the cause of world peace.

In 1954, following World War II and the Korean War, Congress, at the urging of veterans service organizations, passed a law renaming Armistice Day as Veterans Day. From 1971-1977, Veterans Day was held in late October. A 1975 law returned it to Nov. 11, beginning in 1978.

—City News Service contributed to this report.