History Of Fathers Day
The celebration known as Father's Day celebrates fathers and fatherhood. In the majority of nations, it is observed on the third Sunday in June. In the United States, Father's Day dates back to the first decade of the 20th century. After hearing a sermon on Mother's Day in 1909, Sonora Smart Dodd, a woman from Spokane, Washington, was moved to create a holiday honouring fathers. Dodd's father, Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was the sole provider for her and her five siblings. On June 19, 1910, the anniversary of her father's birth, Dodd persuaded the Spokane Ministerial Association to host a special service honouring fathers. As a result of the event's success, other municipalities quickly started holding their one's own Father's Day festivities. Father's Day was officially recognised by a presidential proclamation by President Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Father's Day did not, however, become a recognised holiday in the US until 1972, when
