World Father’s Day (Third Sunday of June)
20 June -2021
20-Jun Third Sunday of June: World Father’s Day
The date for Father's Day changes from year-to-year. Father's Day is celebrated annually on the third Sunday in June in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and a number of other countries around the world to celebrating the contribution that fathers and father figures make for their children's lives.
Father's Day did not gain popularity until several decades later when President Richard Nixon signed a declaration in 1972, making it an annual celebration on the third Sunday of June.
Before that On July 5, 1908, hundreds of men died in a mining mishap at Fairmont in West Virginia. Grace Golden Clayton, the daughter of a dedicated reverend, suggested a Sunday service in memory of all the men who died in the accident. After few years later a woman, Sonora Smart Dodd, again started this Father's Day in honor of her father, a Civil War veteran who brought up six children as a single parent.
