For this edition, our focus is the history of Father’s Day, which occurs on the third Sunday every June. The holiday was established in the early 20 th Century in the U.S., after gaining traction …
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For this edition, our focus is the history of Father’s Day, which occurs on the third Sunday every June.
The holiday was established in the early 20th Century in the U.S., after gaining traction thanks in part to Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, whose dad was a Civil War veteran; Father’s Day was celebrated in Washington State circa 1910; President Calvin Coolidge encouraged all states to observe Father’s Day in 1924; it became a national holiday in 1972 under President Richard Nixon; in July 1908, according to history.com, “a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration.”
