At 11 o'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month, millions of people stop. In 1918, World War One ended at that moment, after an armistice was signed in a railway carriage in a forest north of Paris. The fighting went on for six more hours, right up to 10:59.
That's where Veterans Day, and Remembrance Day in Canada and Britain, come from.
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