Armistice Day (which coincides with Remembrance Day and Veterans Day public holidays) is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne France for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I which took effect at eleven o’clock in the morning—the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.
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Belgium, Serbia, France, New Zealand
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Commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne France for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I
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