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Brian Leonard Redhead (28 December 1929 – 23 January 1994) was a British author, journalist and broadcaster. [2] He was a co-presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 from 1975 until 1993, shortly before his death.
People are invited to mark the occasion privately at home, on their doorstep or street, or at local community events and vigils, No 10 said.
Two minutes' silence is then observed. The silence represents the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, when the guns of Europe fell silent. [17] This silence is ended by Gunners of the Royal Horse Artillery firing a gun salute, then Royal Marines buglers sound the Last Post. [18] The wreath-laying ceremony on 14 ...
A minute’s silence has been held at locations across Northern Ireland to mourn the death of the Queen ahead of a state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday morning.
The occasion is also marked on the second Sunday of November, known as Remembrance Sunday, with a minute’s silence at 11am. This year, Remembrance Sunday falls on 10 November.
The Silent Minute was an historic movement begun in the United Kingdom by Major Wellesley Tudor Pole O.B.E. in 1940. It continues today as a London -based charity following its revival by Dorothy Forster.
The first two-minute silence held in London (11 November 1919) was reported in The Manchester Guardian on 12 November 1919: The first stroke of eleven produced a magical effect. The tram cars glided into stillness, motors ceased to cough and fume, and stopped dead, and the mighty-limbed dray horses hunched back upon their loads and stopped also ...
Celtic fans also waved Irish and Palestinian flags and displayed a banner accusing Britain of genocide ahead of their Scottish Premiership match with Kilmarnock