Hvornår blev fædre dagen til en national ferie?
1972
Father's Day
Et lovforslag om national anerkendelse af helligdagen blev fremsat i Kongressen i 1913. I 1916 tog præsident Woodrow Wilson til Spokane for at tale ved en Fars Dag-fest, og han ønskede at gøre den til en officielt anerkendt føderal helligdag, men kongressen modsatte sig dette af frygt for, at den ville blive kommercialiseret. USA's præsident Calvin Coolidge anbefalede i 1924, at dagen skulle overholdes i hele landet, men han undlod at udstede en national proklamation. To tidligere forsøg på at anerkende helligdagen formelt var blevet forkastet af Kongressen. I 1957 skrev senator Margaret Chase Smith fra Maine et forslag om Fars Dag, hvori hun anklagede Kongressen for at have ignoreret fædrene i 40 år, mens hun hædrede mødrene, og dermed "[udpege] kun den ene af vores to forældre". I 1966 udstedte præsident Lyndon B. Johnson den første præsidentielle proklamation til ære for fædre, idet han udpegede den tredje søndag i juni som Fars dag. Seks år senere blev dagen gjort til en permanent national helligdag, da præsident Richard Nixon underskrev den som lov i 1972.
1972
A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak at a Father's Day celebration and he wanted to make it an officially recognized  federal holiday, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed throughout the entire nation, but he stopped short at issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a Father's Day proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus "[singling] out just one of our two parents". In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972.
Father's Day