| Giving personalized Father's Day gifts is a | | | | 1908, and this new holiday might also have been |
| thoughtful way to show your father that you | | | | an inspiration for a Father's Day. |
| care. You could surprise him with a Father's Day | | | | The first time Father's Day was held in the month |
| gift basket that is filled with all of his favorites. | | | | of June was due to the efforts of Mrs. Sonora |
| This year find the perfect Father's Day gift in a | | | | Smart Dodd, from Washington State. Her Civil |
| gift basket customized just for him. For any | | | | War veteran father, William Jackson Smart, had |
| special man in your life, whether it is your Dad, or | | | | raised his six children as a single parent after his |
| your brother or husband who is a father, you will | | | | wife and their mother had died. Inspired by Anna |
| want to remember him on this day that is set | | | | Jarvis, the instigator of Mother's Day, Mrs. Dodd |
| aside to honor all that he does for his family. | | | | held the first Father's Day in June, the month her |
| Although Father's Day is celebrated on different | | | | father had died, on June 19, 1910 in Spokane, |
| days and months of the year depending on which | | | | Washington. |
| country you are in, in the United States Father's | | | | Politically speaking, it took quite a few years |
| Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June | | | | before Father's Day became an official national |
| every year. The first time the holiday was | | | | holiday. Presidents Woodrow Wilson celebrated the |
| celebrated was on July 5th, however, in 1908, as | | | | occasion with his family in 1916, and Calvin |
| the theme for a church service in Fairmont, West | | | | Coolidge made a recommendation that it become |
| Virginia. A year earlier there had been a mine | | | | a national holiday in 1924. Father's Day was made |
| explosion that had killed 361 men, many of whom | | | | into a holiday that would occur on the third |
| were fathers, and so a special service topic was | | | | Sunday of June by Lyndon Johnson, and it was |
| employed. Mother's Day had begun to be | | | | finally recognized as an official holiday by Richard |
| celebrated in nearby Grafton, West Virginia, also in | | | | Nixon in 1972. |