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The United States is one of the few countries in the world that have an official Father's Day. On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given.
The start of Father's Day is not clear. No matter when the first true Father's Day began, the strongest promoter of the holiday is Sonora Smart Dodd of Washington. Mrs. Dodd felt that she had a great father, He was a soldier of the Civil War. His wife had died young, and he had raised six children alone.
In 1909, Mrs. Dodd advised having a church service to thank fathers on June 5, her father's birthday. But there wasn't enough time left for her to prepare the service, so she put it off a few weeks later to June 19.
From then on. Washington State celebrated the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.
States and organizations began persuading Congress to start a Father's Day. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson approved of this idea. And President Calvin Coolidge made it a national event in 1924. Since then, fathers had been honored and recognized by their families throughout the country on the third Sunday in June. When children can't visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card. Usually, fathers prefer greeting cards. Most greeting cards are funny. Fathers laugh when they open them.
