Father's Day always falls on the third Sunday
in June. It is the day we can remember and honor our fathers.
A woman named Sonora
Smart Dodd established an official equivalent to Mother’s Day
for male parents. She went around to local businesses to gather
support for her idea, and on June 19, 1910, the state of
Washington celebrated the first-ever Father's Day.
On May 1, 1972,
President Richard Nixon signed Proclamation 4127, which declared
Father's Day as a national holiday, with the first official
celebration on June 18, 1972. "Let each American make this
Father's Day an occasion for renewal of the love and gratitude
we bear to our fathers, increasing and enduring through all the
years," he wrote in the document. Incidentally, we are all
used to telling our mothers, "I love you." It is OK to tell
dad the same.
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