The first Father's Day celebration was held in Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910. Sonora Smart Dodd came up with the idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. In 1972, President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June.
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