Tomb of Unknown Soldier is dedicated

Thursday, November 11

The 315th day of the year 50 days left

Today in history

On this day in 1921, exactly three years after the end of World War I, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia during an Armistice Day ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding.

Two days before, an unknown American soldier, who had fallen somewhere on a World War I battlefie…