fathers day
Father's Day was inaugurated in the United States in the early 20th century to complement in celebrating fathers, fathering, and fatherhood.
Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas.[4] Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910.[4][5] Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there.[4]
After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day at Central Methodist
Episcopal Church in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a
similar holiday honoring them.[4][6]
Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the
pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the
celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.[7][8]
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