A brief history of Father's Day - Sonora Smart Dodd proposed it in 1910, as a way to honor her father, William Jackson Smart, who raised her when her mom died in childbirth. Dodd was at a church service thinking about how grateful she was for her father when she had the idea for Father's Day, which would mirror Mother's Day but be celebrated in June -- her dad's birthday month.
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