For the first time, fireworks over Red Mountain will cap off Veterans Day in the Magic City.

The nation's oldest Veteran's Day Parade will begin at 1:30 p.m. in downtown Birmingham. The parade route begins on 18th Street and 9th Avenue North, and ends at 19th Street and 10th Avenue North. Click here to see the full route.

If you can't be downtown to see the parade, watch a livestream here.

The Magic City is the home of the first Veterans Day Parade, after Birmingham native Raymond Weeks urged then-Army Chief of Staff General Dwight Eisenhower in 1947 to create a national holiday honoring all veterans, and change Armistice Day to Veterans Day. In 1954, President Eisenhower established November 11 as Veterans Day, and President Ronald Reagan later honored Weeks with the Presidential Citizenship Medal.

Weeks led the first National Veterans Day Parade in 1947 in Alabama, and continued the tradition until he died in 1985.

Read more about Veterans Day history, and its Birmingham ties, here.

The events

The Magic City events start Friday, with a memorial service honoring Weeks. The service begins at 4:30 p.m. at Linn Park, and Mayor William Bell will speak.

The National Veterans Awards Dinner Reception will be held at the Sheraton Birmingham Ballroom at 5:30 p.m. The 2017 Award will be presented to the Navajo Code Talkers, who helped keep U.S. secrets secure from the Japanese during World War II. The Soaring Eagle Award will be presented to Dave Wood, of Wood-Fruiticher Inc. Wood is part of the Veterans Airlift Command-- a program that flies sick or injured veterans to out-of-state hospital visits at no charge.

The dinner starts at 6:30 p.m., and tickets are $45. Buy them here.

On Saturday-- Veterans Day-- events start at 8:30 a.m. with a Veterans Memorial Service at Cathedral Church of the Advent. The service will be conducted by The Forty and Eight, an independent, honor organization of veterans founded in 1920 by Americans returning from France after World War I.

Next is the World Peace Luncheon, where General Charles "Chuck" Horner who commanded U.S. and allied air forces during the first gulf war's Operation Desert Storm will speak. That event will take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Sheraton Ballroom, and tickets are $35. Buy them here.

The 70th Annual National Veterans Day Parade will start at 1:30 p.m. and feature a flyover of a vintage WWI aircraft, and "maybe a surprise military fighter jet flyover," National Veterans Day President Mark Ryan said. There will also be a salute to the 100th anniversary of WWI.

Fireworks at Vulcan Park and Museum will end the day's events at 5:30 p.m. The free, 20-minute show is presented by Pyro Shows of Alabama and will be synced to a soundtrack live on 104.7 WZZK. Vulcan will be closed for a few hours leading up to the show for safety purposes, but will reopen later that evening.