Episode 2966
Father's Day
Mon, 2025-Jun-16 02:04 UTC
Length - 1:59
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With 226,551 views on Sunday, 15 June 2025 our article of the day is Father's Day.
Father's Day is a day set aside for honoring one's father, as well as fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. "Father's Day" complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Mother's Day and, in some countries, Siblings Day, and Grandparents' Day. The day is held on various dates across the world, and different regions maintain their own traditions of honoring fatherhood.
In Catholic countries of Europe, it has been celebrated on 19 March as Saint Joseph's Day since the Middle Ages. In the United States, Father's Day was founded in the state of Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd in 1910. Father's Day is a recognized public holiday in Lithuania and some parts of Spain and was regarded as such in Italy until 1977. It is a national holiday in Estonia, Samoa, and equivalently in South Korea, where it is celebrated as Parents' Day.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:04 UTC on Monday, 16 June 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see Father's Day on Wikipedia.
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