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Remembrance or Poppy Day

British Remembrance Day or Poppy Day is held on 11 November. The holiday is marked by the magic of three ... figures 11 — 11 — 11, standing for the date in the calendar, the eleventh month of the year, i.e. November, and the time — 11 o’clock. This combination commemorates the end of World War One, ... on 11 November 1918. On that day the ... was signed in Compiègne, Northern France, at 5 am. Six hours later, i.e. at 11 am the actual ... stopped. Because of that the holiday was also known as the Armistice Day. Now it is a day to ... all those who fell in both World wars. The event is always commemorated by a ... silence at 11 am on 11 November. It should be mentioned that the exact timing of silence was first proposed by Edward George Honey — an Australian ... from Melbourne. The man published his suggestion in the London Evening News on 8 May 1919. Having read the paper, English King George V issued the proclamation of 7 November 1919 which called for a two-minute silence. On Remembrance Day or Poppy Day, people ... wear artificial poppies, symbolizing drops of blood. The poppies are worn because during military actions of World War One poppy seeds were churned up the soil and the flowers ... like never before.