Its Daddys Day and here are a few fun facts about our holiday. Read this one and Go ye therefore and polish the car my brothers! ;) 1. Other Latin American countries that celebrate Fathers Day on the third Sunday of June, include: Argentina, Belize, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. While most Latin American countries celebrate Fathers Day on the same date as the United States, some do not. For instance, Nicaragua celebrates on June 23, Uruguay celebrates on the second Sunday of July and the Dominican Republic celebrates on the last Sunday of July. 2. Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash. is given credit for establishing Fathers Day in 1909 after listening to a Mothers Day Sermon. Dodd wanted to honor her widowed Civil War veteran father, William Smart, and picked June 17, 1910 in honor of her fathers birthday. 3. The commercial success of Anna Jarvis Mothers Day helped turn Fathers Day into an official holiday -- President Lyndon Johnson issued a proclamation in 1966 issuing the third Sunday in June as Fathers Day and President Richard Nixon signed it into law. 4. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2008, there are an estimated 70.1 million fathers. Globally speaking, there are 1.5 billion fathers worldwide and each year, 122 million children are born worldwide. 5. Americans spend over $1 billion annually on Father’s Day presents. And while ties and flowers are popular gifts, the one item people buy the most of each Fathers Day are cards. In fact, Hallmark claims that the fourth biggest card giving occasion in the world is Fathers Day, with 87 million cards exchanged each year. 6. The official flower of Fathers Day is the rose. Which color of rose you pick is symbolic -- red roses are for living fathers and white roses are for the deceased. 7. One of the most famous quotes about fathers comes from author Mark Twain, who said: “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 14:12:48 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015