Today acknowledges the contribution of fathers to their family. Children buy or make presents for their father and spend the day having fun with dad.
History;
Father’s Day was founded in America, where it is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. Father’s Day was first celebrated on June 19, 1910 at the Spokane, Washington YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd.
Sonora heard about how Anna Jarvis had founded Mother’s Day in honor of her mom and told the pastor of her Church that there should be a day to celebrate fathers also.
Sonora’s father was a Civil War veteran named William Jackson Smart. Smart was a single parent from Arkansas who raised six children. Sonora was hoping that Father’s Day celebrations would be held on June 5, which was her father’s birthday, but due to the Church’s time constraints the first Father’s Day celebration ended up on the third Sunday of June. It has remained that way to this day.
