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Subject: Re: Time of WW I Armistice 11 Nov 1918
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 00:20:08 -0700

Rick Hughes wrote:

> Does anybody know at what time the Armistice went into affect?
> I have a cousin who was wounded 11 Nov 1918 and died 5 days later
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The armistice was signed at 5:00 AM but went into effect at 11:00 AM --
or, as my history teachers put it, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh
day of the eleventh month." I just checked my encyclopedia to confirm
this.

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Austin W. Spencer
http://www.public.asu.edu/~anselmo

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