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Travel Trivia: What was the date of the first US Father's Day celebration, and where did it happen?

What was the date of the first US Father’s Day celebration, and where did it happen?

 

a.  June 10, 1920, in San Francisco, CA

b.  June 1, 1955, in New York City, NY

c.  June 15, 1935, in Chicago, IL 

d. June 19, 1910, in Spokane, WA

 

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d. What a weird way to play trivia!?!

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June 1, 1955 NYC

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June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington 

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D….I’m just guessing here but why not?

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D. June 19, 1910 Spokane, WA

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D. June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington

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d. but none of the above is correct answer. 1st created 1908 in Fairmont, WV.

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That is true, @mstrees it was the first Father’s Day Service at a church in Fairmont, West Va.. but was a one time thing.  

 

It had not gone National at that time. Someone else spearheaded the effort and continued to do so to make it a National event, and then many years later it was recognized as a National Holiday. 

The question here said celebration, so the Church service sermon was not an event, but a remembrance to honor the hundreds of fathers killed in the Monongah Mining Disaster the year prior.  It left about a thousand children fatherless.  The church service was a one time remembrance at the church .

 

Thank you for mentioning that, I learned a lot by trying to find out, and wouldn’t have known that tidbit.  I would imagine they try to claim it as their “first”, but in all actuality it wasn’t.  Fun stuff to read about though.

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