Father’s Day is a complement towards Mother’s Day honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society.In most countries it is celebrated on the third Sunday of June, but it is also celebrated widely on other days.
In India Father’s Day Would be celebrated on 2012 June 17th, Sunday.
Father’s Day was founded in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Arkansas from Spokane, who was also the driving force behind its establishment. Its first celebration was in Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who reared his six children in Spokane, Washington. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis’ Mother’s Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father’s birthday, the pastors hadn’t enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.
On July 19, 1910, the governor of the U.S. state of Washington proclaimed the nation’s first “Father’s Day.†However, it was not until 1972, 58 years after US President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official, that the day became a nationwide holiday in the United States.