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The Origin of Father's Day (Holiday)
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Paul Jang
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2016-07-08 03:13:36, hit : 2,229 |
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The Origin of Father's Day (Holiday)
Father's Day
Father's Day is a celebration honoring father and celebrating the influence of fathers in society. It is celebrated on the third Sunday of June in many countries.
Long before any modern observances, a young Babylonian named Elmesu wished his father good health and a long life on a clay tablet. The Catholic observance was originally on St. Joseph's Day which is March 19th.
The first observance of a Father's Day in the United States took place in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5. 1908. It was organized by Mrs. Grace Clayton, who wanted to celebrate the lives of the 210 fathers who had been lost in the Monograph Mining disaster several months earlier on December 6, 1907.
On June 19, 1910, an independently-invented Father's Day observance was celebrated through the efforts of Sonora Doss 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. She wanted a celebration that honored fathers like her own father, William Smart. He was a Civil War veteran who was left to raise his family alone when his wife died giving birth to their sixth child.
The following year with the assistance of her pastor, Reverend Dr. Conard Bluhm, Sonora took the idea to the Spokane YMCA, alone with the Ministerial Alliance, endorsed her idea and help it spread by celebrating the first Father's Day in 1910. Sonorasuggested her father's birthday, June 5, be established as the day to honor all Father. However, the pastors wanted more time to prepare, so June 19, 1910 was used.
It took many years to make the holiday official. A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resided, fearing that it would become commercialized.
President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. 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.\\" In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon singned it into law in 1972. This year.
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