rockerest’s Twitter Archive—№ 11,965

1867-10-18: Alaska transferred to US. Capital had local time +14:59 before 1867 and -9:01 afterwards. Alaska backed one day in the calendar, but because of the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, also skipped 12 days, so that Fri, Oct. 6 was followed by Fri, Oct. 18