Fathers Day PNG

Happy Father's Day PNG

Sonora Smart Dodd, the daughter of an American Civil War veteran, thought that fathers should have a day like Mother's Day. Dodd's father had raised six children alone in their mother's absence. He started to work to declare his father's birthday, June 5, Father's Day, but these efforts could not reach that date and the celebrations were postponed to the third Sunday of June.

Father's Day was first celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington. In 1924, United States President Calvin Coolidge supported the celebrations, but it was not officially declared Father's Day. In 1966, Lyndon Johnson, the president of that time, issued a statement declaring that the third Sunday of June would be celebrated as Father's Day every year. In 1972, with the signature of President Richard Nixon, Father's Day was legally declared a public holiday in the USA.

Catholics, on the other hand, celebrate a different date, like Father's Day. They took this celebration from a religious point of view and celebrated the 19th day of March in memory of the father of the Christian prophet Jesus. They give it to their father under the name of Joseph's Day. In some countries, these celebrations have gone beyond their religious characteristics.

When is Father's Day?

Father's Day is celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of June.