This week In National Press Club history

November 11, 2013: Veterans Day, was originally named Armistice Day by National Press Club associate member and US President Woodrow Wilson, in November, 1919 to mark the end of World War I on November 11, 1918. On this Veterans Day the Club salutes its many members, past and present, who have bravely served our country in the armed services in the wars that followed “the war to end all wars."

November 11, 1999: Bobby Knight, University of Indiana basketball coach, focuses in his luncheon speech on the need for academic standards for college athletes. Earlier that year, his team had won the nineteenth Big Ten Conference Championship.

November 12, 2002: Danny Glover, actor, producer, and long-time political activist, now chairman of TransAfrica, addresses United States foreign policy toward Africa, and outlines TransAfrica’s priorities in dealing with the issues facing that continent: debt relief, AIDS, reparations, agricultural subsidies and sovereignty.

November 14, 2002: Jeff Shaara, author of prize-winning historical novels about the American Revolutionary War, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and World Wars l and ll, signs copies of his latest book. “The Glorious Cause,” at the Club’s Book Fair.

November 15, 1998: Tom Wolfe, author of “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” called the signature novel of the 1980s, presents the awards for the National Press Club’s Fiction Writers Contest. Dressed in his iconic white suit, Wolfe says that novelists can’t rely on talent alone, but to stand out from other writers, they need good information and to branch out from what they know.

This Week In National Press Club History is brought to you by the History and Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s history through constantly changing lobby displays, events such as the recent “Centennial Spelling Bee,” panel discussions such as the stellar panel of journalists on the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination and its ongoing Oral History project.