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Why is Father's Day Celebrated in America?
Father's Day is a holiday celebrated annually in the United States on the third Sunday of June. The first recorded observance of Fathers Day in the US was on July 5, 1908, when a West Virginia church sponsored 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 . However, it was not until 1972 that Father's Day became a nationwide holiday in the United States, 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother's Day official. The more cynical among us might surmise that businesses such as florists did not see the obvious sales potential of a day celebrating, Dad.
The campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers did not meet with the same enthusiasm as Mother's Day, perhaps because, as one florist explained, "fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal that mothers have" . In 1916, President Wilson honored the day by using telegraph signals to unfurl a flag in Spokane when he pressed a button in Washington, D.C. . Today, Father's Day is celebrated in the United States on the third Sunday of June and is a day to honor fathers, fatherhood, and our father figures.
Father’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June every year in the United States. In 2024, Father’s Day will be on June 16th 1. In 2025, it will be on June 15th 1. In 2026, it will be on June 21st .
When is Fathers Day?
2024 Sunday June 16, 2024
2025 Sunday June 15, 2025
2026 Sunday June 21, 2026
Fathers Day: Parenting Quotes and Tips
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
- Jim Valvano
-The greatest thing a FATHER can do to his children, is to love their mother.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
- Pope John XXIII
My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne. ~Hank Williams, Jr.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. Gloria Naylor
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud
There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus. - Author Unknown
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. Bill Cosby
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (If you can find it, please let us know.)
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Clarence Budington Kelland
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." Harmon Killebrew