Tomorrow is Father's Day 2015
1. Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash. is given credit for establishing Father's Day in 1909 after listening to a Mother's Day Sermon. Dodd wanted to honor her widowed Civil War veteran father, William Smart, and picked June 17, 1910 in honor of her father's birthday.
2. The commercial success of Anna Jarvis' Mother's Day helped turn Father's Day into an official holiday -- President Lyndon Johnson issued a proclamation in 1966 issuing the third Sunday in June as Father's Day and President Richard Nixon signed it into law.
3. Father's Day falls on the third Sunday of June every year.
4. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2008, there are an estimated 70.1 million fathers. Globally speaking, there are 1.5 billion fathers worldwide and each year, 122 million children are born worldwide.
5. Americans spend over $1 billion annually on Father’s Day presents. And while ties and flowers are popular gifts, the one item people buy the most of each Father's Day are cards. In fact, Hallmark claims that the fourth biggest card giving occasion in the world is Father's Day, with 87 million cards exchanged each year.
6. The official flower of Father's Day is the rose. Which color of rose you pick is symbolic -- red roses are for living fathers and white roses are for the deceased.
7. One of the most famous quotes about fathers comes from author Mark Twain, who said:
What Is The Meaning Behind Father's Day?
7 Surprising Things to know about the history of this holiday
Father's Day, created to honor fathers the way Mother's Day honors mothers, is celebrated on the third Sunday of June in the United States and many other countries.
Here are 7 surprising facts about Father's Day:
1. Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash. is given credit for establishing Father's Day in 1909 after listening to a Mother's Day Sermon. Dodd wanted to honor her widowed Civil War veteran father, William Smart, and picked June 17, 1910 in honor of her father's birthday.
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3. Father's Day falls on the third Sunday of June every year.
4. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2008, there are an estimated 70.1 million fathers. Globally speaking, there are 1.5 billion fathers worldwide and each year, 122 million children are born worldwide.
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5. Americans spend over $1 billion annually on Father’s Day presents. And while ties and flowers are popular gifts, the one item people buy the most of each Father's Day are cards. In fact, Hallmark claims that the fourth biggest card giving occasion in the world is Father's Day, with 87 million cards exchanged each year.
6. The official flower of Father's Day is the rose. Which color of rose you pick is symbolic -- red roses are for living fathers and white roses are for the deceased.
7. One of the most famous quotes about fathers comes from author Mark Twain, who said:
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one,
I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
– Mark Twain
– Mark Twain
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