It was not a time machine, nor a TARDIS that caused 11 days to go missing from the calendar in 1752. It was a calendar change, a long overdue one in fact. For centuries, much of the world had ...

People who were living in Britain or any other English colonies went to bed on 2 September 1752 and woke up on 14 September 1752. The reason? The Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750. People at that ...