Apart from being celebrated as World Music Day all over the world, June 21, this year (third Sunday of June), is also being celebrated as Father's Day. It's a celebration of parenthood. But do you know that it was passed as Fathers' Day but was misspelled and got passed as Father's Day instead? To know some more amazing facts about this day, read on!
- It was first proposed by Sonora Smart Dodd of the United States whose father, William Jackson Smart, was an American Civil War veteran and raised her and her five siblings after her mother died
- Seeing her father raising a large family all alone, Sonora Dodd became an admirer and the idea of Fathers' Day was proposed
- She had also learned about a mission to celebrate Mother's Day at a Methodist church. Listening to the sermon, Sonora got very inspired to honour her father
- Although, it was first celebrated on June 19, 1910, it was only in 1966 when former President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed it
- President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation and declared the third Sunday of June as the Father's day
- Sonora had proposed Fathers' Day so that she could address all the fathers in the world but when the first attempt to pass the bill was tried, it was misspelled as Father's Day
- The declaration of third Sunday of June as Father's Day was signed as a law, and made permanent by President Richard Nixon, in the year 1972
- Some countries celebrate this day on June 19 but in most of the countries like the United States, Greece, India, France, Japan, Canada and China, this day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June.
Happy Father's Day!
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