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Father's Day
Observed byMany countries
TypeCommercial
DateThird Sunday in June (many countries);
in Australia and NZ: first Sunday in September;
in Brazil: second Sunday in August;
and other dates
Related toMother's Day, Parents' Day, Children's Day, Grandparent's Day
This article is about the celebration. For other uses, see Father's Day (disambiguation).

Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June, but it is also celebrated widely on other days. Father's Day complements Mother's Day, a celebration that honors mothers and motherhood.

History

Father's Day is a Hallmark Holiday.

After the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mother's Day in the US, some wanted to create similar holidays for other family members, and Father's Day was the choice most likely to succeed. There were other persons in the US who independently thought of "Father's Day", but the credit for the modern holiday is always given to Sonora Dodd, who was the driving force behind its establishment.

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 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 hadn't 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 didn't 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 "(...) 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 " 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.

Similar celebrations

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 didn't even think of promoting the event, and it wasn't 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 might 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 city-wide 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 who helped to promote the holiday, claimed that he had first the idea for Father's Day in 1915. He claims 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".

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 around the world

The officially recognized date of Father's Day varies from country to country. This section lists some significant examples, in order of date of observance.

Gregorian calendar
Occurrence Dates Country

February 23

 Russia (Defender of the Fatherland Day)*

March 19

 Andorra (Dia del Pare)
 Bolivia
 Honduras
 Italy (Festa del Papà)
  Switzerland (Canton Ticino)

 Liechtenstein
 Portugal (Dia do Pai)
 Spain (Día del Padre)

Second Sunday of May

May 14, 2023
May 12, 2024
May 11, 2025

 Romania (Ziua Tatălui)

May 8

 South Korea (Parents' Day)

Third Sunday of May

May 21, 2023
May 19, 2024
May 18, 2025

 Tonga

Ascension Day

May 18, 2023
May 9, 2024
May 29, 2025

 Germany

First Sunday of June

June 4, 2023
June 2, 2024
June 1, 2025

 Lithuania (Tėvo diena)
  Switzerland

June 5

 Denmark (also Constitution Day)

Second Sunday of June

June 11, 2023
June 9, 2024
June 8, 2025

 Austria
 Belgium

Third Sunday of June

June 18, 2023
June 16, 2024
June 15, 2025

 Afghanistan
 Albania
 Antigua and Barbuda
 Argentina
 Aruba
 Bahamas
 Bahrain
 Bangladesh
 Barbados
 Belize
 Bermuda
 Brunei Darussalam
 Canada
 Cambodia
 Chile
 People's Republic of China**
 Colombia
 Costa Rica

 Croatia
 Cuba
 Cyprus
 Czech Republic
 Dominica
 Ecuador
 Ethiopia
 France
 Ghana
 Greece
 Guyana
 Haiti
 Hong Kong
 Hungary
 India
 Ireland
 Jamaica
 Japan
 Kuwait
 Laos
 Macau
 Madagascar
 Malaysia
 Malta
 Mauritius
 Mexico
 Myanmar
 Namibia
 Netherlands
 Nigeria
 Oman
 Pakistan
 Panama
 Paraguay
 Peru
 Philippines

 Puerto Rico
 Qatar
 Saint Lucia
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 Singapore
 Slovakia
 South Africa
 Sri Lanka
 Suriname
 Trinidad and Tobago
 Turkey
 United Kingdom
 United States
 Venezuela
 Vietnam
 Zambia
 Zimbabwe

June 17

 El Salvador

 Guatemala

June 21 (first day of summer)

 Lebanon
 Egypt
 Jordan
 Palestine
 Syria
 Uganda

June 23

 Nicaragua

 Poland

Second Sunday of July

July 9, 2023
July 14, 2024
July 13, 2025

 Uruguay

Last Sunday of July

July 30, 2023
July 28, 2024
July 27, 2025

 Dominican Republic

Second Sunday of August

August 13, 2023
August 11, 2024
August 10, 2025

 Brazil
 Samoa

August 8

 Republic of China (Taiwan)

First Sunday of September

September 3, 2023
September 1, 2024
September 7, 2025

 Australia
 Fiji

 New Zealand
 Papua New Guinea

Second Sunday of September

September 10, 2023
September 8, 2024
September 14, 2025

 Latvia

Third Sunday of September

September 17, 2023
September 15, 2024
September 21, 2025

 Ukraine

First Sunday of October

October 1, 2023
October 6, 2024
October 5, 2025

 Luxembourg

12 November

Indonesia Indonesia

Second Sunday of November

November 12, 2023
November 10, 2024
November 9, 2025

 Estonia (Isadepäev)
 Finland (Isänpäivä)
 Iceland

 Norway
 Sweden

December 5

 Thailand (The birthday of King Bhumibol)

December 26

 Bulgaria

Hindu calendar
Definition Sample dates Country/Territory

Bhadrapada Amavasya

August 29, 2011

   Nepal Buwaako Mukh Herne Din or बुवाको मुख हेर्ने दिन (कुशे औंशी)

 India
Islam calendar
Definition Sample dates Country/Territory

13 Rajab

June 16, 2011

 Iran

 Pakistan

*Officially, as the name suggests, the holiday celebrates people who are serving or were serving the Russian Armed Forces (both men and women). But the congratulations are traditionally, nationally accepted by all fathers, other adult men and male children as well.
**In China during Republican period prior to 1949, Father's Day on August 8 was first held in Shanghai in 1945.

International history and traditions

In a few Catholic countries, it is celebrated on the Feast of St. Joseph.

Argentina

Father's Day in Argentina is celebrated on the third Sunday of June, but there have been several attempts to change the date to August 24, to commemorate the day on which the "Father of the Nation" José de San Martín became a father.

In 1953 the proposal to celebrate Father's Day in all educational establishments on August 24, in honor of José de San Martín, was raised to the General Direction of Schools of Mendoza Province. The day was celebrated for the first time in 1958, on the third Sunday of June, but it was not included in the school calendars due to pressure from several groups.

Schools in the Mendoza Province continued to celebrate Father's Day on August 24, and, in 1982, the Provincial Governor passed a law declaring Father's Day in the province to be celebrated on that day.

In 2004, several proposals to change the date to August 24 were presented to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies as a single, unified project. After being approved, the project was passed to the Senate of Argentina for final review and approval. The Senate changed the proposed new date to the third Sunday of August, and scheduled the project for approval. However, the project was never addressed during the Senate's planned session, which caused its ultimate failure.

Aruba

In Aruba, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday.

Australia

In Australia, Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September and is not a public holiday. YMCA Victoria continues the tradition of honouring the role fathers, and father figures play in parenting through the annual awarding of Local Community Father of the Year in 32 municipalities in Victoria. The Father's Day Council of Victoria annually recognise fathers in the Father of the Year Award.

Brazil

In Brazil Father's Day (Dia dos Pais, in portuguese) celebrated 3 months after Mother's Day, on the second Sunday of August. A publicist Sylvio Bhering in the mid-1950s selected the date in honor of Saint Joachim, patriarch of family (as well as the Catholic day of godfathers). It is not an official holiday (see Public holidays in Brazil), but it is widely observed and typically involves spending time with and giving gifts to one's father.

Canada

In Canada, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. Father's Day typically involves spending time with one's father or the father figures in one's life. Small celebrations and the giving of gifts may be part of the festivities organized for Father's Day.

Costa Rica

In Costa Rica the Unidad Social Cristiana party presented a bill to change the celebration of the day from the third Sunday of June to March 19, the day of Saint Joseph. That was in order to give tribute to this saint, who gave the name to the capital of the country San José, Costa Rica, and so family heads will be able to celebrate the Father's Day at the same time as the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker. The official date is still third Sunday of June.

Denmark

In Denmark, Father's Day is celebrated on June 5. It coincides with Constitution Day.

Germany

Hiking/drinking tour on Herrentag

In Germany, Father's Day (Vatertag) is celebrated differently from other parts of the world. It is always celebrated on Ascension Day (the Thursday forty days after Easter), which is a federal holiday. Regionally, it is also called men's day, Männertag, or gentlemen's day, Herrentag. It is tradition for groups of males (young and old but usually excluding pre-teenage boys) to do a hiking tour with one or more smaller wagons, Bollerwagen, pulled by manpower. In the wagons are wine or beer (according to region) and traditional regional food, Hausmannskost. Many men use this holiday as an opportunity to get drunk.

These traditions are probably rooted in Christian Ascension Day's processions to the farmlands, some of which reportedly took on the character of drinking sprees as early as in the 17th century. Similar "gentlemen parties" have also taken place in the streets of urban areas, especially Berlin, since the 19th century. However, many fathers opt to spend the day with their families instead and refrain from getting drunk. Many people will take the following Friday off at work, and some schools are closed on that Friday as well; many people then use the resulting four-day long weekend for a short vacation.

Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday.

Ireland

In Ireland, Father's Day (Template:Lang-ga) is celebrated on the third Sunday of June.

Iran

Father's day in Iran is celebrated on the 13th of Rajab, the birthday of the First Imam of Shia Muslims, Ali.

Italy

In Italy, according to the Roman Catholic tradition, fathers are celebrated on Saint Joseph's Day, commonly called Feast of Saint Joseph ("Festa di San Giuseppe"), March 19. It is not a public holiday.

Japan

Main article: Public holidays in Japan

In Japan, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday.

Korea

In Korea, Parents' day is celebrated on 8 May and is not a public holiday.

Malaysia

In Malaysia, Father's Day is on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday.

Mexico

In Mexico, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday.

Seychelles

In Seychelles, Father's Day is celebrated on the 16th day of June and is not a public holiday.

Nepal

Main article: Gokarna Aunsi

The Newar population (natives of Kathmandu valley) in Nepal honors fathers on the day of Gokarna Aunsi, which occurs in late August or early September, depending on the year, since it depends on the lunar calendar. The Western-inspired celebration of Father's Day that was imported into the country is always celebrated in the same day as Gokarna Aunsi.

The rest of the population has also begun to celebrate the Gokarna Aunsi day It is commonly known as Abu ya Khwa Swoyegu in Nepal Bhasa or Buwaako mukh herne din (बुवाको मुख हेर्ने दिन) in Nepali (literally "day for looking at father’s face"). On the new moon day (Amavasya) Hindus go to the Shiva temple of Gokarneswor Mahadev, in Gokarna, a suburb of Kathmandu while Buddhists go to Jana Bahal (Seto Machhindra Nath or white Tara) temple in Kathmandu to pay respect to their deceased father.

New Zealand

In New Zealand, Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September and is not a public holiday.

Peru

In Peru, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. People usually give a present to their fathers and spend time with him mostly during a family meal.

Philippines

In Philippines, Father's Day is not an official holiday, but it is widely observed on the 3rd Sunday of June. Most Filipinos born in the 1960s and 1970s did not celebrate Father's day, but Filipinos now follow this tradition and other American holidays, most likely due to the influence of the United States through television and the internet.

Poland

In Poland, Father's Day is celebrated on June 23.

Portugal

Father's Day is celebrated on March 19 (see Roman Catholic tradition below) in Portugal. Father's Day is not a bank holiday.

Roman Catholic tradition

In the Roman Catholic tradition, Fathers are celebrated on Saint Joseph's Day, commonly called Feast of Saint Joseph, March 19, though in certain countries Father's Day has become a secular celebration. It is also common for Catholics to honor their "spiritual father," their parish priest, on Father's Day.

Romania

Beginning with 2010, in Romania, Father's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May and it is recognized officially by the state. Out of the 27 states in the European Union, it was the only one without an official Father's Day. Romanian Father's day for 2012 was celebrated on May 13.

Russia

Russia continues the USSR tradition of celebrating Defender of the Fatherland Day instead of Father's Day. It is usually called "Men's Day" and it is considered the Russian equivalent of Father's Day.

Singapore

In Singapore, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June but is not a public holiday.

Spain

Father's Day, El Día del Padre, is observed on the Feast day of Saint Joseph, which is March 19. As a Saint's Day, banks and many stores close.

Taiwan

Main article: Public holidays in the Republic of China

In Taiwan, Father's Day is not an official holiday, but is widely observed on August 8, the eighth day of the eighth month of the year. In Mandarin Chinese, the pronunciation of the number 8 is . This pronunciation is very similar to the character "爸" "bà", which means "Papa" or "father". The Taiwanese, therefore, usually call August 8 by its nickname, "Bābā Holiday" (爸爸節).

Thailand

In Thailand, Father's Day is set as the birthday of the king. December 5 is the birthday of the current king, Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX). Traditionally, Thais celebrate by giving their father or grandfather a Canna flower (ดอกพุทธรักษา Dok Buddha Ruksa), which is considered a masculine flower; however, this is not as commonly practiced today. Thai people will wear yellow on this day to show respect for the king, because yellow is the Color of the day for Monday, the day King Bhumibol Adulyadej was born. In 2007, King Bhumibol Adulyadej was seen leaving the hospital wearing a baby pink blazer. Today, Thais wear pink instead of the yellow.

It first gained nationwide popularity in the 1980s as part of a campaign by Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda to promote Thailand's royal family. Mother's Day is celebrated on the birthday of Queen Sirikit, August 12.

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June and is not a public holiday.

United States

Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. In recent years, retailers have adapted to the holiday by promoting greeting cards and traditionally male-oriented gifts such as electronics and tools. Schools and other children's programs commonly have activities to make Father's Day gifts.

More phone calls are made in the United States during Mother's Day than during Father's Day, but the percentage of collect calls on Father's Day is much higher, making it the busiest day of the year for collect calls.

Father's Day is accompanied by a smaller total number of phone calls, greeting cards and gifts than Mother's Day. It is speculated that this is due to the greater number of households with a mother than households with a father (due to single mothers), to the greater role of mothers in housework, and to historical advantage - Mother's Day began in 1870 and became official in 1914 while Father's Day only became official in 1972.

See also

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  • Father's Day (36)
  • July
  • Independence Day (federal)
  • July–August
  • Summer vacation
  • Tisha B'Av (religious)
  • August
    September
    Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
    Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
    Gospel Music Heritage Month
    September–October
    Hispanic Heritage Month
  • Chehlum Imam Hussain (religious)
  • Oktoberfest
  • Pitri Paksha (religious)
  • Rosh Hashanah / Feast of Trumpets (TX, NY, religious)
  • Shemini Atzeret (religious)
  • Simchat Torah (religious)
  • Vijaya Dashami (religious)
  • Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement (TX, NY, religious)
  • October
    Breast Cancer Awareness Month
    Disability Employment Awareness Month
    Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month
    Filipino American History Month
    LGBT History Month
    October–November
  • Birth of the Báb (religious)
  • Birth of Baháʼu'lláh (religious)
  • Day of the Dead (VI)
  • Diwali (NY, religious)
  • Mawlid al-Nabi (religious)
  • November
    Native American Indian Heritage Month
    December
  • Christmas (religious, federal)
  • New Year's Eve
  • Varies (year round)
  • Eid al-Adha (NY, religious)
  • Eid al-Fitr (NY, religious)
  • Islamic New Year (religious)
  • Yawm al-Arafa (religious)
  • Hajj (religious)
  • Laylat al-Qadr (religious)
  • Navaratri (religious, four times a year)
  • Obon (religious)
  • Onam (religious)
  • Ramadan (religious, month)
  • Ghost Festival (religious)
  • Yawm Aashura (religious)
  • Legend:

    (federal) = federal holidays, (abbreviation) = state/territorial holidays, (religious) = religious holidays, (cultural) = holiday related to a specific racial/ethnic group or sexual minority, (week) = week-long holidays, (month) = month-long holidays, (36) = Title 36 Observances and Ceremonies

    See also: Lists of holidays, Hallmark holidays, Public holidays in the United States, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands.
    Public holidays in Mexico
    Statutory holidays
    Civic holidays
    Festivities
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