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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

This coming Sunday, 21, is the first day of summer, that is the Summer Solstice. The solstice is marked by the longest day and shortest night of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere).

It is also Father's day!

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Today's Random Fact:

Father's Day was thought up by Spokane, Washington resident Sonora Dodd in 1909 while listening to a Mother's Day sermon. She wanted to honor her own father, William Smart, who was a widowed farmer left alone to raise his six children single-handedly.

Residents embraced the ideas so warmly that by June 19, 1910 the first Father's Day celebration was proclaimed in Spokane because it was the month of Dodd's father's birth.

Due to her efforts, Sonora Dodd is now known as "the mother of Father's Day".

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Bonus Fact:

The first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.

Father's Day in America has been officially celebrated annually since 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent.

Roses are the official flower for Father's Day. A red rose is worn in the lapel if your father is living, a white rose if he is deceased.