{"id":393873,"date":"2017-06-02T13:22:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/02\/when-is-fathers-day-2017-and-why-does-the-date-change\/"},"modified":"2017-06-02T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:22:20","slug":"when-is-fathers-day-2017-and-why-does-the-date-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/02\/when-is-fathers-day-2017-and-why-does-the-date-change\/","title":{"rendered":"When is Father&#8217;s Day 2017 and why does the date change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Mum had her special day back in March &#8211; and soon it will be time to show your appreciation for dad. Father&#8217;s Day is not too far away so give it some thought if you want to organise anything extra-special.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the one day a year dedicated to our dads and we&#8217;ve got all the details on the date for 2017 as well a s some present ideas if you&#8217;re looking to plan ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>When is Father&#8217;s Day 2017?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>This year, Father&#8217;s Day falls on Sunday, June 18.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does the date change?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no fixed date for Father&#8217;s Day &#8211; it moves to a different date every year.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>But it always falls on the third Sunday of June.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>So in 2016 Father&#8217;s Day fell on June 19, in 2015 it was celebrated on June 21, and back in 2014 it was on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>And the reason that the date changes each year is all down to the history of the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why <\/strong>we we<strong> celebrate Father&#8217;s Day? How did it start?<\/strong><br \/>Many historians believe Father&#8217;s Day was founded by Grace Golden Clayton in West Virginia, USA, on July 5, 1908.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A year and a half before, a town nearby called Monogah had suffered a mine explosion which saw more than 360 men die. More than 200 of the victims were fathers who left behind widows and children.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Grace was moved by this and after speaking to her Pastor, Reverend Robert Thomas Webb, she initiated the idea that there should be a special day dedicated to honouring fathers.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>She chose July 5, 1908 to celebrate Father&#8217;s Day, as this was the nearest date to her late father&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>However, Clayton&#8217;s Father&#8217;s Day was a flop as the day was not promoted outside of the town, no public statement was made to the city council and, more importantly, it was overshadowed by a huge July 4 Independence Day festival the day before with over 12,000 people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>So the initial date of July 5 turned out to be a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>So where did the June date come from?<\/strong><br \/>Because of this, some historians believe it was another American woman, Sonora Smart Dodd from Washington, who truly launched the Father&#8217;s Day celebration two years later.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>After hearing a Mother&#8217;s Day sermon in church, Sonora felt that fathers also deserved a day of being honoured.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>She was just 16 when she had lost her mother and was brought up, along with her five siblings, by her father.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>She took her idea of Father&#8217;s Day to her pastor Reverend Dr Conrad Bluhm and he fully supported it.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Sonora had originally wanted Father&#8217;s Day to be celebrated on June 5 &#8211; her father&#8217;s birthday &#8211; but the church felt they needed more time to prepare and June 19 was chosen.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Dodd tried to promote Father&#8217;s Day as a national holiday. 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Father&#8217;s Day is not too far away so give it some thought if you want to organise anything extra-special. &#13; It&#8217;s the one day a year dedicated to our dads and we&#8217;ve got all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>When is Father&#039;s Day 2017 and why does the date change? - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/02\/when-is-fathers-day-2017-and-why-does-the-date-change\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"When is Father&#039;s Day 2017 and why does the date change? - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Mum had her special day back in March &#8211; and soon it will be time to show your appreciation for dad. 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