June 2 Holidays

National Leave Work Early Day was created to encourage employees to leave work on time — or even early — as a push against the culture of performative overwork and unpaid overtime. National Rotisserie Chicken Day celebrates the French cooking technique of rotating meat on a spit over an open fire, documented in French royal kitchens as early as the 14th century and now a supermarket staple generating more than four billion dollars in annual U.S. sales. American Indian Citizenship Day marks June 2, 1924, when President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans — more than 130 years after the Constitution was ratified without extending that right to Indigenous people. National Rocky Road Day celebrates the ice cream flavor of chocolate, marshmallow, and nuts — invented at Dreyer’s in Oakland, California, in 1929 to offer Americans a mood-lifting treat during the early Great Depression. Leave early, eat chicken, reckon with 130 years, eat ice cream.