He is approaching Father’s day, a date on which all people greet, give a gift to the father figures of the family. There are even meetings and celebrations around this day.
As you know, Father’s Day It is celebrated on the third Sunday of the sixth month of the year. That is why the date changes every year and many people sometimes do not know when it is.
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Why is Father’s Day celebrated?
Father’s Day originated in 1909 in the United States. In the city of Spokane, a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd asked to the ecclesiastical authorities to prepare a date that resembles the Mother’s day but intended for parents, since she wanted to thank her father, William Smart -he was a veteran of the American Civil War (1860-1865)- for having raised her and her five siblings after their mother died in her last childbirth.
The first date that was considered was June 6, the day William was born. But due to the long preparations, The celebration was postponed to June 19that It was the third Sunday of the month that year. This is how that date was maintained, which in 1966 was recognized as a national holiday by Lyndon B. Johnson and officially proclaimed by Richard Nixon in 1972.
In Argentina, The first Father’s Day was celebrated in 1958only it was done August 24, a date chosen in honor of Mercedes Martín de Escalada, the only daughter of General José de San Martín, considered the “Father of the Country.” However, in the 1960s the North American anniversary was adopted.
When is Father’s Day in Argentina
This year, Father’s Day will be June 16 which, obviously, falls on a Sunday. This date coincides with a long weekend, because the Passage to Immortality of General Martín Güemes is commemorated with a national holiday.
When is Father’s Day celebrated in other countries
These countries, like Argentina, they adopted the North American date:
- Colombia.
- Costa Rica.
- Cuba.
- Chili.
- Ecuador.
- Mexico.
- Panama.
- Paraguay.
- Peru.
- Puerto Rico.
- Venezuela.
- Albania.
- France.
- Greece.
- Hungary.
- Ireland.
- Czech Republic.
- Netherlands.
- United Kingdom.
However, there are countries that celebrate their Father’s Day on March, 19 because that is the St. Joseph’s Daythe father of Jesus of Nazareth:
- Spain.
- Bolivia.
- Croatia.
- Honduras.
- Italy.
- Portugal.
- Swiss.
