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Father's Day History |
Father’s Day is an important day, not only for dads around the world but for their children as well. After all it’s a child’s thought that makes a father rise to a new pedestrian. Today Father’s Day is celebrated around the world. Gifts and flowers are given on this day and father’s take pride in their children.
But how many of us know how this Father’s Day originated? It all started in 1909 in Spokane Washington when Sonora Smart Dodd was listening to a Mother's Day sermon. Hearing that heart touching sermon, she decided to dedicate a day to her dad William Jackson Smart, who had raised her up and her siblings as a single parent after their mother died.
She realized how difficult it must have been for her father to take care of all of them all alone. She decided that the greatness of her father should not go unacknowledged. To show how deeply she was touched by his sacrifices, courage, self-sacrifice and love she celebrated the first Father’s Day on 19th of June 1910, on the birthday of her father.
Soon this idea of celebrating Father’s Day caught on and in 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. In 1926, a National Father's Day Committee was formed in New York City.
Nearly after thirty years a Joint Resolution of Congress gave recognition to Father’s Day. And after sixteen years President Richard Nixon established the third Sunday of June as a permanent national observance of Father’s Day in 1972. This day is a day to honor all good fathers who contribute to the betterment and well being of the children with equal intensity as the mother.
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