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  • Minute's silences

    Following last night's/today's events, and with the minute's silence to be held at the start of the snooker at Preston this Thursday, it got me thinking:

    I wonder when the first minute's silence was held to mark the passing of someone in the relevant sport? (Was not sport, necessarily, I suppose!)

    And who was the first person to be commemorated in such a way?

    Anyone know?

  • #2
    Interesting, I just did some quick research

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day

    I seems the tridition of this started by King George V in 1919
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