Posted: Jun 12, 2008, 4:20 PM CST
First local Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington.
Father's Day was first celebrated on the third Sunday of June.
In 1916, US President Woodrow Wilson approved the idea of observing an annual Father's Day.
In1924, President Calvin Coolidge made Father's Day a national event.
In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.
Father's Day is the fifth most popular card-sending holiday, with an estimated $100 million in card sales. Husbands, grandfathers, uncles, sons and sons-in-law are honored as well as father.
Neck ties, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, are the number one gift for Father’s Day.
According to greetings card makers Hallmark, Father’s Day is the fifth-largest card-sending holiday.
As the idea of Father’s Day was conceived by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington, to honor her father, she chose his birthday which was proclaimed on June 19, 1910, by Spokane’s mayor as the first Father’s Day.