The Untold Story of Father’s Day and the Woman Who Created It

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The idea for Father's Day originated in the United States in 1910, when a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd wanted to pay tribute to her father, who had raised her and her five siblings alone on a farm in Washington State. Sonora came up with the idea while listening to a sermon on Mother's Day at church. She proposed the date for June 5th, her father's birthday. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge issued the first official declaration supporting the…