Father 's Day ( United States ) - wikipedia Father 's Day ( United States ) This article is about the holiday in the United States of America. For Father 's Day as observed throughout the world, see Father 's Day. Father 's Day Observed by United States Type Commercial Significance Honors fathers and fatherhood Date Third Sunday in June 2017 date June 18 ( 2017 - 06 - 18 ) 2018 date June 17 ( 2018 - 06 - 17 ) 2019 date June 16 ( 2019 - 06 - 16 ) 2020 date June 21 ( 2020 - 06 - 21 ) Frequency annual Related to Mother 's Day Father 's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. The tradition was said to be started from a memorial service held for a large group of men who died in a mining accident in Monongah, West Virginia in 1907. It was first proposed by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington in 1909. It is currently celebrated in the United States annually on the third Sunday in June. Contents 1 History 2 Spelling 3 Dates 4 See also 5 References 5.1 Sources 6 External links History Father 's Day was inaugurated in the United States in the early 20th century to complement Mother 's Day in celebrating fathers, fathering, and fatherhood. Father 's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis ' Mother 's Day at Central Methodist Episcopal Church in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father 's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June. It did not have much success initially. In the 1920s, Dodd stopped promoting the celebration because she was studying in the Art Institute of Chicago, and it faded into relative obscurity, even in Spokane. In the 1930s Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again, raising awareness at a national level. She had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present to fathers. Since 1938 she had the help of the Father 's Day Council, founded by the New York Associated Men 's Wear Retailers to consolidate and systematize the commercial promotion. Americans resisted the holiday during a few decades, perceiving it as just an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial success of Mother 's Day, and newspapers frequently featured cynical and sarcastic attacks and jokes. But the trade groups did not give up : they kept promoting it and even incorporated the jokes into their adverts, and they eventually succeeded. By the mid-1980s the Father 's Council wrote that `` (... ) ( Father 's Day ) has become a Second Christmas for all the men 's gift - oriented industries. '' 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 resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress. 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 signed it into law in 1972. In addition to Father 's Day, International Men 's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers. A `` Father 's Day '' service was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father when, on December 1907, the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongah killed 361 men, 250 of them fathers, leaving around a thousand fatherless children. Clayton suggested her pastor Robert Thomas Webb to honor all those fathers. Clayton chose the Sunday nearest to the birthday of her father, Methodist minister Fletcher Golden. Clayton 's event did not have repercussions outside of Fairmont for several reasons, among them : the city was overwhelmed by other events, the celebration was never promoted outside of the town itself and no proclamation was made in the City Council. Also two events overshadowed this event : the celebration of Independence Day July 4, 1908, with 12,000 attendants and several shows including a hot air balloon event, which took over the headlines in the following days, and the death of a 16 - year - old girl on July 4. The local church and Council were overwhelmed and they did not even think of promoting the event, and it was not celebrated again for many years. The original sermon was not reproduced in press and it was lost. Finally, Clayton was a quiet person, who never promoted the event or even talked to other persons about it. Clayton also may have been inspired by Anna Jarvis ' crusade to establish Mother 's Day ; two months prior, Jarvis had held a celebration for her dead mother in Grafton, West Virginia, a town about 15 miles ( 24 km ) away from Fairmont. In 1911, Jane Addams proposed a citywide Father 's Day in Chicago, but she was turned down. In 1912, there was a Father 's Day celebration in Vancouver, Washington, suggested by Methodist pastor J.J. Berringer of the Irvingtom Methodist Church. They believed mistakenly that they had been the first to celebrate such a day. They followed a 1911 suggestion by the Portland Oregonian. Harry C. Meek, member of Lions Clubs International, claimed that he had first the idea for Father 's Day in 1915. Meek claimed that the third Sunday of June was chosen because it was his birthday ( it would have been more natural to choose his father 's birthday ). The Lions Club has named him `` Originator of Father 's Day ''. Meek made many efforts to promote Father 's Day and make it an official holiday. The U.S. Open golf tournament is scheduled to finish on Father 's Day, as was the 2016 NBA Finals. The FireKeepers Casino 400 NASCAR auto race at Michigan International Speedway is sometimes held on Father 's Day. Spelling In the United States, Dodd used the `` Fathers ' Day '' spelling on her original petition for the holiday, but the spelling `` Father 's Day '' was already used in 1913 when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress as the first attempt to establish the holiday, and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the U.S. Congress. Dates Year Father 's Day 1910 1938 1966 2022 2050 2078 June 19 1911 1939 1967 1995 2023 2051 2079 June 18 1912 1940 1968 2024 2052 2080 June 16 1913 1941 1969 2025 2053 2081 June 15 1914 1942 1970 1998 2026 2054 2082 June 21 1915 1943 1971 1999 2027 2055 2083 June 20 1916 1944 1972 2000 2028 2056 2084 June 18 1917 1945 1973 2029 2057 2085 June 17 1918 1946 2002 2030 2058 2086 June 16 1919 1947 2003 2031 2059 2087 June 15 1920 1948 1976 2032 2060 2088 June 20 1921 1949 1977 2005 2033 2061 2089 June 19 1922 1950 1978 2006 2034 2062 2090 June 18 1923 1951 1979 2007 2035 2063 2091 June 17 1924 1952 1980 2008 2036 2064 2092 June 15 1925 1953 1981 2009 2037 2065 2093 June 21 1926 1954 1982 2038 2066 2094 June 20 1927 1955 2011 2039 2067 2095 June 19 1928 1956 1984 2012 2040 2068 2096 June 17 1929 1957 1985 2013 2041 2069 2097 June 16 1930 1958 1986 2014 2042 2070 2098 June 15 1931 1959 2015 2043 2071 2099 June 21 1932 1960 2016 2044 2072 June 19 1933 1961 2017 2045 2073 June 18 1934 1962 2018 2046 2074 June 17 1935 1963 1991 2019 2047 2075 June 16 1936 1964 2020 2048 2076 June 21 1937 1965 2021 2049 2077 June 20 See also List of films set around Father 's Day References Jump up ^ `` Father 's Day ''. Timeanddate.com. Jump up ^ `` Father 's Day ''. USA.gov. Archived from the original on August 11, 2014. ^ Jump up to : Schmidt, 1997. pp. 275 - 276 ^ Jump up to : Schmidt, 1997, p. 276. Jump up ^ `` Father 's Day ( United States ) ''. University of Kansas Medical Center. Archived from the original on July 1, 2008. Jump up ^ Butler, Joey ( June 18, 2010 ). `` Father 's Day has Methodist ties ''. The United Methodist Church. Retrieved June 17, 2015. In 1909 in Spokane, Wash., Sonora Smart Dodd listened to a Mother 's Day sermon at Central Methodist Episcopal Church. Dodd 's own mother had died 11 years earlier, and her father had raised their six children alone. Dodd felt moved to honor her father, and fathers everywhere, with a special day as well. She proposed her idea to local religious leaders, and gained wide acceptance. June 19, 1910, was designated as the first Father 's Day, and sermons honoring fathers were presented throughout the city. ^ Jump up to : Myers, 1972, p. 185 ^ Jump up to : Larossa, 1997. pp. 172 - 173 Jump up ^ Schmidt, 1997. p. 278 Jump up ^ Schmidt, 1997. p. 279 Jump up ^ Schmidt, 1997. pp. 275, 283 -- 284, 286, 288, 290, 292 Jump up ^ Schmidt, 1997. p. 275,288 - 290 Jump up ^ Schmidt, 1997. pp. 280 -- 283 ; Larossa, 1997. p. 174 Jump up ^ Schmidt, 1997. p. 283 -- 290 Jump up ^ Schmidt, 1997. p. 286 ^ Jump up to : `` Father to have his day ''. The New York Times. October 3, 1913. (... ) a bill providing that `` The first Sunday in June in each and every year hereafter be designated as Father 's Day (... ) '' ^ Jump up to : Myers, 1972. pp. 186 - 187 ^ Jump up to : `` Father 's Day -- The un-Spokane history of Father 's Day '', Daily American, June 13, 2007 ^ Jump up to : `` Father Finally Granted A Day '', Nashua Telegraph, part of The Telegraph, June 18, 1977 ^ Jump up to : Smith, Vicki ( June 15, 2003 ). `` The first Father 's Day ''. The Journal. Retrieved November 7, 2006. ^ Jump up to : Barth, Kelly ( June 21, 1987 ). `` First Father 's Day service in 1908 ''. Dominion Post. Morgantown, West Virginia. Retrieved November 7, 2006. ^ Jump up to : Reverend D.D. Meighen ( June 5, 1908 ). `` The First Father 's Day Service occurred in Fairmont, West Virginia, on July 5, 1908, at Williams Memorial Methodist Espiscopal Church ''. Retrieved September 4, 2010. Jump up ^ `` H. RES. 1274. Commending Sonora Smart Dodd for her contribution in recognizing the importance of Father 's Day and recognizing the important role fathers play in our families '' ( PDF ). Library of Congress. June 12, 2008. Sources Myers, Robert J. ( 1972 ). Hallmark Cards, Inc., ed. Celebrations : The Complete Book of American Holidays ( 1st ed. ). New York City : Doubleday & Company. pp. 184 -- 187. ISBN 978 - 0385076777. Schmidt, Leigh Eric ( 1995 ). Consumer Rites : The Buying & Selling of American Holidays. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press. ISBN 978 - 0691029801. Larossa, Ralph ( 1997 ). The Modernization of Fatherhood : A Social and Political History. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. pp. 89 -- 90. ISBN 978 - 0226469041. Larossa, Ralph ( 1997 ). The Modernization of Fatherhood : A Social and Political History. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. pp. 170 -- 192. ISBN 978 - 0226469041. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Father 's Day. 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Question: when was father day declared a national holiday
Answer: 1972