National day calendar

Today is national corn fritters and personal chef day. Some history today includes:

1790- the Residence Act establishes the District of Columbia as the US capital 

1912- the Dixie cup was patented 

1935- Oklahoma City installed the world's first parking meter. Carl Magee received patent no. 2,118,318 and initially trademarked it as the "Dual." Magee would later rename it the "Park-O-Meter"

1941- Joe DiMaggio broke his own consecutive game hitting streak when he hit his 56th. The Yankee began and ended the streak against pitcher Eddie Smith of the Chicago White Sox. The phenomenal streak ended on July 17th against the Cleveland Indians and pitcher Al Smith. No one had repeated the feat or broken it since.

1951- Little, Brown and Co published J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

1969- the Apollo 11 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center. Four days later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon 

2017- Isaac Harding-Davis set the world record for the most ice cream eaten in 1 minute