[nukkad] Father's Day........a brief history

["Ragini" <>]

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Father's Day began in the United States, but no one knows quite where and
when.
Some say that a Mrs. John Dowd of West Virginia began Father's Day to honour
her own father, who raised his family after his wife died. Others say it was
launched in Spokane, Washington, in June 1910 by a Mrs. John Bruce Dodd.
Mrs. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart.

William Smart, a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife died in
childbirth with their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn
and his other five children by himself. It was after Mrs. Dodd became an
adult that she realized the strength and selflessness her father had shown
in raising his children as a single parent.

The first Father's Day was observed on June 19, 1910 in Spokane Washington.
At about the same time in various towns and cities across American other
people were beginning to celebrate a "father's day."

 In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's
Day. Finally in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential
proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day

Many Catholics call St. Joseph's Day, on March 19, Father's Day, because
Joseph was the father of Jesus. But most people celebrate a more modern
version of Father's Day.

Father's Day has become a day to not only honour your father, but all men
who act as a father figure. Stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, and adult
male friends all play a part in fathering, and thus they deserve to be
honoured on Father's Day.


compiled by
Ragini


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