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Mrs. Sonora Smart-Dodd got the idea for Father’s Day in 1909 while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon at her church in Spokane, Washington. She worked with other local churches to institute a Father's Day observance the following year on a Sunday in June, the month of her father’s birthday. Through her efforts, interest in the celebration of Father’s Day grew and spread to other cities, states and countries.
Many congressional resolutions proclaiming a national Father’s Day in the United States were introduced through the years. President Lyndon B. Johnson recognized the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day with a presidential proclamation in 1966, but the holiday was not really made permanent until 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed a presidential resolution that made the third Sunday in June oficially Father’s Day in the United States.
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