Celebrating Father's Day
The first Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington. The popularity of Father's Day spread quickly across the United States. By 1924, even President Calvin Coolidge supported a national Father's Day. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. President Richard Nixon made the third Sunday in June the permanent national observance of Father's Day in 1972.
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