A few fun fact's about Father's Day...
-There are 70.1 million fathers in America.
- Father's Day is the fourth largest card sending occasion. According to Hallmark, over 74
million cards are sent each year.
- Father's Day was started in 1909 by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington to honor her own
father, after listening to a Mother's Day sermon.
- Dodd started the day to honor her father, William Smart, a widower, who raised his six children
on his own.
- Father's Day became an official holiday after President Nixon signed a law that made it
permanent in 1972.
Happy Father's Day!!
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