It was on November 8, 1954 when Armistice Day was officially changed into Veterans Day. After implementing the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1971, this special holiday was celebrated during the fourth Monday of October.
Definition of ginger ale. : a sweetened carbonated nonalcoholic beverage flavored mainly with ginger extract.
This means that it is not so much a situation of ale being employed in opposition to beer, as ale being a sub-group of the generic term beer, with the other being lager and the two differentiated by the brewing process.