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On this day...

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It might be interesting to have a thread recognizing the significant things that happened on each day of the year. Musical or otherwise. Here's today's, for November 11.

On this day in 1918 - World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m. (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honored with a two-minute silence.

Of soldiers alone, ten million had died.
On the morning of the armistice itself, the generals on both sides, even though they knew very well that fighting would stop at 11AM, kept sending troops into battle, killing over 10000 on that day alone. War criminals that have never been brought to justice.