When did the celebration of Father's Day begin?

Question

When did Father's Day become a holiday?

Answer 1

Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas.^[4] Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910.^[4][5] Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there.^[4] After hearing a sermon about Anna Jarvis's Mother's Day at Central Methodist Episcopal Church in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them.^[4][6] Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors of the Spokane Ministerial Alliance did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.^[7][8]

In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.^[18] Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972.^[3][17]

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