Hvem afgør, hvilken dag mors dag falder på?
Woodrow Wilson
Mother's Day
I 1908 afviste den amerikanske kongres et forslag om at gøre Mors Dag til en officiel helligdag, idet de spøgte med, at de også ville være nødt til at udråbe en "svigermors dag". Takket være Anna Jarvis' indsats observerede alle amerikanske stater imidlertid i 1911 denne helligdag, og nogle af dem anerkendte officielt Mors Dag som en lokal helligdag (den første var West Virginia, Jarvis' hjemstat, i 1910). I 1914 underskrev Woodrow Wilson en proklamation, der udnævnte Mors Dag, der afholdes den anden søndag i maj, til en national helligdag til ære for mødre.
Woodrow Wilson
In 1908, the U.S. Congress rejected a proposal to make Mother's Day an official holiday, joking that they would also have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day". However, owing to the efforts of Anna Jarvis, by 1911 all U.S. states observed the holiday, with some of them officially recognizing Mother's Day as a local holiday (the first being West Virginia, Jarvis' home state, in 1910). In 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, held on the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers.
Mother's Day