Veterans Day Closures in Redondo Beach

Redondo Beach city offices and schools in Redondo Beach Unified School District will be closed Monday in observance of Veterans Day, a federal holiday.

In addition, the Redondo Beach public libraries will be closed Monday in observance of the holiday. The Main Library will resume the regular schedule and reopen Tuesday at 10 a.m., and the North Branch Library will resume its regular schedule and reopen Tuesday at noon.

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

Refuse and recycling collection in the city will continue on schedule; however, there will be no street sweeping Monday. The normal street sweeping schedule will resume Tuesday.

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.