History of Father's Day in USAFather's Day festival as we celebrate today traces its history to the United States of America. The idea of observing a day in honor of father was conceptualized by Ms Sonora Smart Dodd, Ms. Dodd attended a Mother's Day Sermon in 1909 and she was struck with the noble idea that society must observe a day to honor the important contribution made by fathers in the raising of children. Encouraged by the love of her father, William Smart, a civil war veteran who single-handedly raised her along with her five siblings after the death of her mother. She wanted to let him know how deeply she was touched by his sacrifices, courage, selflessness and love.
She held the first Father's Day celebration on the 19th of June 1910, on the birthday of her father. The idea soon caught on and in 1924, President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day on the petition sent to him by Dodd on the acceptance of fatherhood. In 1926, a National Father's Day Committee was formed in New York City.
However, it was thirty years later (1956) that a Joint Resolution of Congress gave recognition to Father's Day. Another 16 years passed before President Richard Nixon established the third Sunday of June as a permanent national observance day of Father's in 1972.
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