June 11 Holidays

National Corn on the Cob Day celebrates sweet corn eaten directly off the cob — a method of consumption that Indigenous peoples across North and South America developed over thousands of years of maize cultivation. National German Chocolate Cake Day celebrates a confection that is not German at all — the chocolate layer cake with coconut-pecan frosting was invented by Sam German, who developed a sweet baking chocolate for Baker’s Chocolate Company in 1852, and a homemaker’s recipe was published in a Texas newspaper in 1957. Yarn Bombing Day celebrates the guerrilla fiber art movement in which knitters and crocheters cover public objects — trees, benches, statues, lampposts — in colorful yarn installations. CNA Day honors certified nursing assistants, whose frontline bedside care makes them some of the most essential, and often least recognized, workers in the healthcare system. Corn teeth, coconut-pecan frosting, a crocheted lamppost, and a bedside manner.