how fathers day got started

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1. Guest3583
   

   Father's day was started by Mrs Jhon B Dodds, who felt the need for  father's day celebration as it was totaly ignored by the society. Though people celebrated mother's day but no one felt the need to honour fathers. Finally in 1909 Mrs Jhon B Dodds took this initiative and laid the foundations for father's day.

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2. Guest8465
   

    Father’s Day has a very interesting history embedded in it. The thought for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. The idea of having a Father’s Day came to the mind of Sonora Smart while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. After the death of her mother, she along with her siblings was raised by her father, William Jackson Smart. Sonora wanted to tell her father how special he was and what role he played in her life. She wanted to honor her father’s parental sacrifices that he made for his children. She wanted him to know what courageous, selfless and loving man he was. Since Sonora’s father was born in June, she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June in the year 1910.

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