 On this occasion, veteran soldiers parade through the city and are honoured for their service, and around 120,000 people visit the pop-podia around the city.In 1918 the town acquired its first institution of higher education, the "Landbouwhogeschool Nederland" (Netherlands Agricultural College), which was based on the previous agricultural college founded in 1876, and which later became Wageningen University.This initiated the development from a small historical town into a modern technological community, a process which still continues today.