[guide.chat] Random Facts Father's Day
- From: "clare moulds" <clare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:02:54 +0100
Random Facts:
A sad event spurred the very first day to celebrate fatherhood. Residents in
Fairmont, West Virginia first honored dads on July 5, 1908. The reason:
210 family men had been lost in the Monongah mining disaster.
But the holiday really didn't catch on until a booster got Father's Day fever
One Sonora Smart Dodd, from Spokane, Washington, who celebrated her dad in
1910. She believed that her father, a Civil War vet who had raised her and her
siblings since his wife had died in childbirth with their sixth child, deserved
a day as much as any mother.
The bill to officially recognize the third Sunday in June as Father's Day was
signed into law in 1972, by President Richard Nixon, father of Tricia and
Julie. Why the long wait from the initial commemoration? Congress apparently
resisted efforts to recognize Father's Day for fear the holiday would be
commercialized, instead of simply recognizing the importance of parenting.
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