Father's Day

Father's Day is an annual holiday that celebrates fathers, grandfathers, and all things associated with fatherhood. Father's Day typically includes gift-giving and dinners in honor of fathers. The day is a day where fathers usually spend time with their children and families. In addition to gifts, it is customary for Father's Day cards to be given to the recipient on this day.

The first Father's Day celebration took place in Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910. The celebration was inspired by a lady named Sonora Smart Dodd, who wished to honor her single-parent father who raised his six children alone. She felt that fathers also deserved a special day after listening to a sermon on Mother's Day. In 1924, president Coolidge recommended that Father's Day be a national holiday when he stated that it would, "establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations." However, it was not until 1966 that a president, Lyndon Johnson, declared that Father's Day was to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June. Furthermore, it was not made an official holiday until 1972, by Richard Nixon. In recent years, the holiday has become increasingly commercialized in the United States.

• Father's Day is celebrated in more than 55 of the world's countries, on various dates.
• In the United States, the holiday is on the third Sunday of June.
• International Men's Day is held in many countries on November 19th for men and boys who are not fathers.
• More phone calls are made on Mother's Day than Father's Day in the U.S.
• More collect calls are made on Father's Day than any other day of the year.

• Golf Clubs
• Digital Picture Frame
• Electronics
• Shaving Kits
• Ties
• DVDs
• Wallets
• Tools
• Sporting Goods
• DVD Slideshow

• "Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad." Anne Geddes

• "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -English Proverb

• "It is a wise father that knows his own child." -William Shakespeare

• "If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. -Bill Cosby

• "A father carries pictures where his money used to be.*" Unknown

• "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.” Charles Wadsworth

• "The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” Theodore M. Hesburgh

• "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.” Sigmund Freud