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History
Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting. It is also celebrated to honor and commemorate our forefathers. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving, special dinners to fathers, and family-oriented activities. The first observance of Father's Day is believed to have been held on June 19, 1910 through the efforts of Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington. After listening to a church sermon at Spokane's Central Methodist Episcopal Church in 1909 about the newly recognized Mother's Day, Dodd felt strongly that fatherhood needed recognition, as well.[1] She wanted a celebration that honored fathers like her own father, William Smart, a Civil War veteran who was left to raise his family alone when his wife died giving birth to their sixth child when Sonora was 16 years old.[2]
The following year with the assistance of Reverend Dr. Conrad Bluhm, her pastor at Old Centenary Presbyterian Church (now Knox Presbyterian Church), Sonora took the idea to the Spokane YMCA. The Spokane YMCA, along with the Ministerial Alliance, endorsed Dodd?s idea and helped it spread by celebrating the first Father?s Day in 1910. Sonora suggested her father?s birthday, June 5th, be established as the day to honor all Fathers. However, the pastors wanted more time to prepare, so on June 19, 1910, young members of the YMCA went to church wearing roses: a red rose to honor a living father, and a white rose to honor a deceased one.[2] Dodd traveled through the city in a horse-drawn carriage, carrying gifts to shut-in fathers confined indoors by illness.[2]
It took many years to make the holiday official. In spite of support from the YWCA, the YMCA, and churches, Father's Day ran the risk of disappearing from the calendar.[3] Where Mother's Day was met with enthusiasm, Father's Day was often met with laughter.[3] The holiday was gathering attention slowly, but for the wrong reasons. It was the target of much satire, parody and derision, including jokes from the local newspaper Spokesman-Review.[3] Many people saw it as the first step in filling the calendar with mindless promotions.[3]
A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913.[4] In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized.[2] US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress.[5] In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus "[singling] out just one of our two parents"[5] In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.[2] Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972.[2][5]
In 2010, the Father's Day Centennial Celebration [1] occurs in Spokane with a month of events commemorating the day.
In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers.
Commercialization
The Associated Men's Wear Retailers formed a National Father's Day Committee in New York City in the 1930s, which was renamed in 1938 to National Council for the Promotion of Father's Day and incorporated several other trade groups.[6] This council had the goals of legitimizing the holiday in the mind of the people and managing the holiday as a commercial event in a more systematic way, in order to boost the sales during the holiday.[6] This council always had the support of Dodd, who had no problem with the commercialization of the holiday and endorsed several promotions to increase the amount of gifts.[7] In this aspect she can be considered the opposite of Anna Jarvis, who actively opposed all commercialization of Mother's Day.[7]
The merchants recognized the tendency to parody and satirize the holiday, and used it to their benefit by mocking the holiday on the same advertisements where they promoted the gifts for fathers.[8] People felt compelled to buy gifts even though they saw through the commercial fa?ade, and the custom of giving gifts on that day became progressively more accepted.[8] By 1937 the Father's Day Council calculated that only one father in six had received a present on that day.[8] However, by the 1980s, the Council proclaimed that they had achieved their goal: the one-day event had become a three-week commercial event, a "second Christmas".[8] Its executive director explained back in 1949 that, without the coordinated efforts of the Council and of the groups supporting it, the holiday would have disappeared.[8]
Spelling
Although the name of the event is usually understood as a plural possessive (i.e. "day belonging to fathers"), which would under normal English punctuation guidelines be spelled "Fathers' Day", the most common spelling is "Father's Day", as if it were a singular possessive (i.e. "day belonging to Father"). In the United States, Dodd used the "Fathers' Day" spelling on her original petition for the holiday,[1] but the spelling "Father's Day" was already used in 1913 when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress as the first attempt to establish the holiday,[4] and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the U.S. Congress.[9]
Dates around the world
The officially recognized date of Father's Day varies from country to country. This section lists some significant examples, in order of date of observance.



Gregorian calendar

Definition
Sample dates
Country


January 6


Serbia ("Paterice")*


February 23


Russia (Defender of the Fatherland Day)*


March 19


Andorra (Dia del Pare) Bolivia Honduras[10]

Italy (Festa del Pap?) Liechtenstein

Portugal (Dia do Pai) Spain (D?a del Padre, Dia del Pare, D?a do Pai) Antwerp (Belgium)


Second Sunday of May

May 10, 2009May 9, 2010May 8, 2011

Romania[11] (Ziua Tatălui)

May 8


South Korea (Parents' Day)


Third Sunday of May

May 17, 2009May 16, 2010May 15, 2011

Tonga


Ascension Day

May 21, 2009May 13, 2010

Germany


First Sunday of June

June 7, 2009June 6, 2010June 5, 2011June 3, 2012

Lithuania (Tevo diena)


June 5


Denmark[12] (also Constitution Day)


Second Sunday of June

June 14, 2009June 13, 2010June 12, 2011

Austria Belgium


Third Sunday of June

June 21, 2009June 20, 2010June 19, 2011June 17, 2012

Antigua Argentina[13] Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belize Bermuda Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Canada Chile People's Republic of China**

Colombia Costa Rica[14] Cuba[15] Cyprus Czech Republic Ecuador Ethiopia France Ghana Greece

Guyana Haiti[16] Hong Kong Hungary India Afghanistan Ireland Jamaica Japan Malaysia Malta Mauritius

Mexico[17] Burma Namibia Netherlands Nigeria Pakistan Panama[18] Paraguay Peru[19] Philippines[20] Puerto Rico Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Singapore Slovakia South Africa Sri Lanka Switzerland Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom

United States Venezuela Zambia Zimbabwe


June 17


El Salvador[21] Guatemala[22]


June 21


Egypt Lebanon Jordan Syria Uganda


June 23


Nicaragua Poland


Second Sunday of July

July 12, 2009July 11, 2010July 10, 2011

Uruguay


Last Sunday of July

July 26, 2009July 25, 2010

Dominican Republic


Second Sunday of August

August 9, 2009August 8, 2010August 14, 2011

Brazil Samoa


August 8


Taiwan


First Sunday of September

September 6, 2009September 5, 2010September 4, 2011

Australia Fiji