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A day honoring fathers, Father's Day is the paternal equivalent of Mother's Day. It is celebrated on various days and in many places around the world.

In the United States, United Kingdom and Canada - Fathers' Day is celebrated on the 3rd Sunday in June. In Australia and New Zealand, Father's Day occurs the first Sunday in September.

Other Father's Day (or similar) holidays are held on the following dates in the countries listed:

February 23: Russia (Defender of the Fatherland Day)
March 19: Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Liechtenstein, Andorra (Dia del Pare), Portugal (Dia do Pai), Spain (Dia del Padre, Dia del Pare, Dia do Pai), Macao (Dia do Pai)
May 5: Romania (Ziua Barbatului)
May 8: South Korea (Parents' Day)
Ascension Day: Germany
1st Sunday in June: Lithuania
June 5: Denmark (Constitution Day)
2nd Sunday in June: Austria, Belgium
June 17: El Salvador, Guatemala
June 23: Nicaragua, Poland, Uganda
Last Sunday in June: Haiti
2nd Sunday in July: Uruguay
Last Sunday in July: Dominican Republic
2nd Sunday in August; Brazil
August 8: Taiwan
2nd Sunday in September: Latvia
New Moon in September: Nepal (Bhadra on the Lunar Calendar)
1st Sunday in October: Luxembourg
2nd Sunday in November: Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland
December 5: Thailand
December 26: Bulgaria

International Men's Day is celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Australia, India, United States, Singapore, United Kingdom and Malta on November 19.

Ascent of Man

However old I age or whatever career goals I pursue, it seems, I still remain a little boy watching for Daddy to come home.

My father was a working man of the 1960s, responsible for the gross household income, and for him that meant days and weeks on the road selling heating and air conditioning equipment. His father and his father's father were raised on family farms and orchards where the day's work ended at a communal dinner table. He was the first father in his line to take his dinners alone at motel restaurants in far-off cities while his family ate at home before his empty chair.

No one told us this was unusual. No one warned us how we would miss him then, and for years and years to come....

- continued in Rural Delivery

History of U.S. Holiday

The first observance of a Father's Day in the U.S. may have been held in a church located in Fairmont, West Virginia, on July 5, 1908. A service honoring fathers was conducted by Dr. Robert Webb of West Virginia at the Central United Methodist Church of Fairmont.

The concept of a national Father's Day holiday in the U.S. is generally credited to Sonora Smart Dodd of the state of Washington, who was inspired by a a Mother's Day sermon at the Central Methodist Episcopal Church at Spokane. She arranged a special tribute for her father in June 19, 1910, and began campaigning for an official Father's Day observance to honor all fathers.

In 1926, a National Father's Day Committee was formed in New York City. Father's Day was recognized by a Joint Resolution of Congress in 1956.

A bill establishing a national Father's Day was introduced in Congress as early as 1913 and the idea was supported by President Calvin Coolidge in 1924, but it was not until 1972 that President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June.