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== Armistice Day ==
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Armistice Day (which coincides with [[Remembrance Day]] and [[Veterans Day]], public holidays) is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the [[Armistice of 11 November 1918]] signed between the [[Allies of World War I]] and the [[German Empire]] at [[Compiègne]], [[France]], for the cessation of hostilities on the [[Western Front (World War I)|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.

Most countries changed the name of the holiday after World War II to honor veterans of that and subsequent conflicts. Most member states of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] adopted the name Remembrance Day, and the United States chose Veterans Day.