On July 5, 1908 something special occurred for the first time in the United States of America.  On that day the first observance of Father’s Day occurred.  Father’s Day was celebrated in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South.  Late on June 19, 1910 the YMCA had their first observance of the holiday.  In 1913 congress attempted to establish Father’s Day as a holiday but was unsuccessful.  Decades passed before it officially became a holiday.  In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the first official Father’s Day holiday.  Ever since Father’s Day has been observed the third Sunday in June.

Timothy