Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the 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.
Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day
This is what a world war 1 battlefield in Verdun France looks like today. from interestingasfuck