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Father's Day Trivia
- Sonora Louise Smart Dodd, of Spokane, Washington, started the
tradition of Father's Day in the honor of her dad.
- First local Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in
Spokane, Washington.
- In 1916, US President Woodrow Wilson approved the idea of
observing an annual Father's Day.
- In1924, President Calvin Coolidge made Father's Day a national
event.
- In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential
proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.
- Father's Day is the fifth most popular card-sending holiday, with
an estimated $100 million in card sales. Husbands, grandfathers,
uncles, sons and sons-in-law are honored as well as father.
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