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11 November 1918: The First World War ends

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At 11 o'clock on 11 November 1918, the armistice signed that morning came into force and the guns fell silent on the Western Front, ending the fighting of the First World War. Around 20 million people had died. Many countries still remember the war's victims each November.

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