Father's Day

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Father's Day is a special day to honor our father and is meant for celebrating fatherhood and parenting by males all over the world.Father's Day is celebrated on various dates worldwide, and typically involves honoring and revering fathers. This is mostly celebrated on the third Sunday in June. This day was initially started getting celebrated to complement mother's day in the early 20th century. This is the day when the children comes up with all the innovative ideas to honor theor fathers. There is a custom of giving gifts to fathers on this day. There are many ways in which this day can be celebrated.

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A woman named Sonora Louise Smart Dodd from Spokane, Washington, was the eldest of six children raised by their father, William Jackson Smart, after the death of her mother in their early childhood. She thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. She wanted his to know how special he was to her. while listening to a Mother's Day sermon, in 1909, she determined there should also be a day to honor fathers.Her father was born in June, so she chose that month to get that new holoday celebrated.Sonora gained local support and made her dream a reality, one year later, within her own city of Spokane, Washington. Sonora married John Bruce Dodd. She died March 22, 1978, several years after Father's Day became a permanent national observance.