What Day Was the WWI Armistice?

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The armistice between the Allied powers and Germany took effect at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, ending the fighting of World War I, though a formal peace treaty (the Treaty of Versailles) wasn't signed until the following year.

This same date is separately commemorated as Veterans Day in the United States and Remembrance Day in the UK, Canada, and several Commonwealth countries, both directly tracing back to this original armistice.

Fighting on some parts of the front reportedly continued right up until the eleventh-hour deadline itself, with soldiers on both sides aware the ceasefire was imminent.

Casualty figures continued to mount right up to the ceasefire itself, with historians noting thousands of casualties on the war's very final day, adding to long-standing criticism of the decision to maintain combat operations until the exact eleventh-hour deadline.