Father’s Day 2021: The Date, The History, And Everything You Need To Know About This Special Day For Dads
Father’s Day is approaching.
Though a specific day is not required to honour the particular guy who is a parent, friend, and mentor, both children and fathers anticipate Father’s Day on June 20.
With covid-related limitations gradually being removed, you might be able to spend the day with your father if he lives somewhere else.
Even if you can’t eat a meal or watch a movie together, you can still celebrate.
You can surprise him with a Father’s Day gift or some of his favourite foods. Do you have any idea when and how the tradition of honouring Father’s Day began?
Father’s Day Traditions
Father’s Day falls on a different day each year.
Father’s Day is observed on the third Sunday in June in most nations.
The events honour the special importance that fathers or father figures play in our lives.
Father’s Day is traditionally observed on March 19, the Feast of St. Joseph, in nations such as Spain and Portugal.
The 8th of August is Father’s Day in Taiwan.
Father’s Day is celebrated in Thailand on December 5, the birthdate of former King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
What was the origin of Father’s Day?
According to almanac.com, Father’s Day has had a tumultuous past.
After a terrible mining tragedy in the United States, it was first marked. Hundreds of workers died in a mining accident at Fairmont, West Virginia, on July 5, 1908.
Grace Golden Clayton, the daughter of a devout minister, proposed a Sunday memorial ceremony for all of the men killed in the accident.
Another woman, Sonora Smart Dodd, began marking Father’s Day a few years later in honour of her father, a Civil War veteran who raised six children as a single parent.
Father’s Day did not become popular in the United States until 1972, when President Richard Nixon made a proclamation designating it an annual event on the third Sunday of June.