Happy Emancipation Day

This was submitted by a reader.

A DC parking person just informed me that today is a little-known DC holiday, therefore there is no need to pay the meters or move your car every two hours.

I was told this when calling in to report what I thought was a malfunctioning electronic meter that indicated that there was no need to pay today.

It took me two seconds to find a press release on this holiday - “The holiday commemorates the day in 1862 that President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, which ended slavery in the District of Columbia and freed more than 3,000 slaves.”