World War I ends.

In Boston, a whistle blows at 3:15 a.m. signals the signing of the armistice by Germany and the ringing of church bells soon follows. People to pour into the street and celebrate throughout the city. Francis Russell later writes, “For Boston . . . that morning was the beginning of the new, the bright promise of a future that combined the ineradicable American belief in progress with the memory of a prewar golden past that never existed but was now to be recaptured.”