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History of Father's Day
Father's
Day, 3rd Sunday in June.
The
idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane,
Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea
for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Having
been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died,
Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her
father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his
daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora's father was born
in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane,
Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.
In
1924 President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Father's
Day.
Roses
are the Father's Day flowers: red to be worn for a living father and white
if the father has died.
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