{"id":176141,"date":"2023-05-29T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T12:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=176141"},"modified":"2023-05-29T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T12:08:12","slug":"when-is-fathers-day-2023-exploring-the-holidays-long-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/when-is-fathers-day-2023-exploring-the-holidays-long-history\/","title":{"rendered":"When is Father&apos;s Day 2023? Exploring the holiday&apos;s long history"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>When is Father&#8217;s Day? From gift ideas to the date&#8217;s history, everything you need to know<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The UK celebrates the holiday on June 18, 2023, the third Sunday of the month\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The day has a long history and took over 50 years to be recognised\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Here is everything you need to know about Father&#8217;s Day 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Father&#8217;s Day is fast approaching in the UK and falls in June, a couple of months after Mother&#8217;s Day, the annual holiday is a chance to celebrate father&#8217;s and father figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The holiday is now hugely popular and is celebrated at different times all over the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However the day has not always been welcomed, and took over half a century to be recognised.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is everything you need to know about Father&#8217;s Day 2023, including gift ideas and the history behind it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/29\/11\/71526681-12135895-image-a-4_1685356545665.jpg\" height=\"483\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Unlike Mother&#8217;s Day, Father&#8217;s Day has not always been celebrated and was declared a holiday in 1972 by U.S. president Richard Nixon\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>When is Father&#8217;s Day 2023?<\/h2>\n<p>Father&#8217;s Day falls on the third Sunday of June and changes annually. This year the date falls on June 18, a day earlier than last year&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Along with many other countries, the UK follows the US timing of father&#8217;s day, but other countries celebrate at different points throughout the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Australia celebrates the day in September, which falls on September 3 this year. Meanwhile, Finland, Iceland and others honour their Father&#8217;s in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Father&#8217;s Day gift ideas<\/h2>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t thought about Father&#8217;s Day yet, no need to panic, there is just over two weeks to find a gift in time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have time to search the shops, Amazon has a huge Father&#8217;s Day collection with plenty of gifts from screwdriver sets to dressing gowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To opt for something more personal, Funky Pigeon and Etsy have various custom gifts with the option for next day delivery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/29\/11\/71527037-12135895-image-a-5_1685356842106.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The first Father&#8217;s Day service was held in West Virginia in 1908 following the Monongah Mine Disaster, one of the worst mine disaster&#8217;s in American history<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>What is the history of Father&#8217;s Day?<\/h2>\n<p>Unlike Mother&#8217;s Day, Father&#8217;s Day is much more modern and was not recognised as a holiday until US President Richard Nixon signed the date in 1972.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first known Father&#8217;s Day service occurred decades earlier in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908, following a mining accident which killed hundreds of men in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Grace Clayton organised the event to honour the men who died, including her father, attendees offered flowers to respect both the surviving and dead fathers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A year later the US had widespread Father&#8217;s Day celebrations across churches in Spokane, Washington organised by Sonora Dodd, who conceived the idea after attending a Mother&#8217;s Day service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dodd petitioned the government to create a national holiday which she originally wanted to be on June 5 &#8211; her father&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Washington state celebrated its first Father&#8217;s Day three weeks later on June 16, 1910.<\/p>\n<h2>Father&#8217;s Day World War II connection<\/h2>\n<p>Father&#8217;s Day did not reach equal popularity to Mother&#8217;s Day until World War II, which saw many fathers on the front lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The day rose to significance as a way to support and show appreciation for the men fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Years later Nixon declared the day a national holiday, by this time the UK had already been celebrating Father&#8217;s Day alongside the U.S. for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Father&#8217;s Day Controversy\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>In the 1930s in America, a campaign launched in New York to replace both Father&#8217;s Day and Mother&#8217;s Day with &#8216;Parent&#8217;s Day&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The campaign failed partly due to economic interests, which benefitted from celebrating the holidays separately.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12135895\/When-Fathers-Day-gift-ideas-dates-history-need-know.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is Father&#8217;s Day? 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