Remembrance Day in United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada
Remembrance Day in United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada is held on November 11. This event in the second decade of the month November is annual. 
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Remembrance Day was first observed in 1919 throughout the British Commonwealth. It was originally called “Armistice Day” to commemorate armistice agreement that ended the First World War on Monday, November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m.—on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Armistice is Latin for to stand (still) arms. To this day we mark Armistice Day around the United Kingdom with a Two Minute Silence at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month. A two-minute silence was held at 11am to remember the people who have died in wars around the world.
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