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Significant date?
Gone again Started conversation Oct 18, 2000
Forgive me for being trivial, but I have a problem:
It seems to me that the eleventh day of the eleventh month has some significance, possibly related to religion of some description. Since this forum is rich in knowledge of non-mainstream beliefs, I wonder if anyone can help me. 11th November, anyone? TIA. 
Pattern-chaser
P.S. More generally, does anyone know of a list of feast days and other celebrated dates (*not* just christian festivals)? On-line, perhaps, or a book or something...?
Significant date?
jbliqemp... Posted Oct 31, 2000
As far as I know, it was the day the Armistice was signed by Germany in WWI, and following that, Veteran's day in the US. I don't know about any religious bearings, though.
-jb
Significant date?
Martin Harper Posted Nov 1, 2000
actually, 11:00 on the 11th Nov was the day that the ceasefire occured - armistice happened before or afterwards...
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jbliqemp... Posted Nov 2, 2000
An Armistice is a cease fire. Or a truce, rather. Naturally, the two sides would have to agree to meet, a sort of pre-truce. It was November 11th, though, that Germany signed this:
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918/armistice.html
The events prompting the signing:
http://reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-11.11.1998.4.html
The Armistice went into effect six hours after it was signed.
-jb
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