The true origin of Father's Day arises on June 19, 1909 in the United States, when a woman named Sonora Louise Smart Dodd wanted to honor her father Henry Smart, a civil war veteran who became a widower when his wife died. during the delivery of her sixth child. It was on a rural farm in Whashintong state that Henry Smart took over the education of six children.
Sonora realized that her father had been an example to follow and proposed the date of the birth of her father on June 19 to celebrate Father's Day, the idea of instituting Father's Day was enthusiastically welcomed by many people in various counties and cities, but it wasn't until 1924 that President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of establishing a National Father's Day.
In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson created a proclamation that declared the third Sunday in June as Father's Day in the United States.
This festival reached the strength to travel to other continents and be celebrated in much of the world.