Where did Fathers Day start?
It all started with a lady called Sonora Smart Dodd. Sonora was at Church on Mothers Day listening to a sermon about how wonderful Mother’s are which of course is absolutely true but it inspired Sonora to think about her own father. He had raised Sonora and her five siblings after her own mother died during childbirth becoming both Mother and Father. She started a petition to make the third Sunday in June to be the day we all think about and thank our Fathers, June being the birth month of her own Father. She also suggested that we all wear a rose on that day therefore making the rose the Fathers day flower. The petition worked and on 19th June 1910 in Spokane in Washington, the first Fathers Day took place. Of course the Mothers were ahead of the Fathers, but not by much, with the first Mothers Day taking place in 1907. When is fathers day? Fathers day is on June 21st 2009. After Valentines Day, Easter and Mothers Day, the poor Dads can almost be forgotten about in June when peoples t
