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Missing Eleven Days?

In 1752, throughout the British Empire, September 2 was followed, the next day, by September 14, as the government adopted the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days.

On September 14, 1944, Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.

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The first country to make the change from Julian to Gregorian calendar was France, in 1582. The last major country to change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar was — Russia, as the newly-​created USSR (1917).

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