Father’s Day Story

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Father’s Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving, and special dinners to fathers and family-oriented activities.
There was a tradition to celebrate Father’s Day around thousands of years ago. In Babylon a son called Elmesu carved a father’s day message on a clay card. In his message Elmesu wished his father a long and healthy life. There is no knowledge as to what happened to this father son duo but it is believed that several countries retained the custom of celebrating Father’s Day.

The actual beginnings of Father’s Day are rather sketchy, and there are several stories of how this holiday started. While these are considered to be true, probably the most common and widespread story is that the June holiday that is known today as Father’s Day is said to have started growing its roots in the year of 1909.

A woman by the name of Mrs. John B. Dodds, who lived in Spokane, Washington, campaigned for a Father’s Day celebration. Her interest in having an organized holiday for fathers was sparked after she heard a church sermon on the virtues of Mother’s Day. The sermon reminded Mrs. Dodds about her childhood years, when her mother had passed away while in childbirth with her sixth child. Mrs. Dodds’ father, William Smart, who was a veteran of the Civil War, was then left to carry on as both father and mother to the newborn baby and their five other children. With medical doctors being in short supply, and medicine being in just its early stages of development, many women died while giving birth to their babies. It was simply, at that time, a hazard of the effort to bring forth new life onto the earth. And when Mrs. Dodds thought of all fathers’ great role. She decided that they all should be honored with a special day all their own. She campaigned and worked to spread her message, and even got the help of friends and family to write letters to influential people who could make this dream happen for her. And, finally, after much hard work and determination, a local celebration was finally proclaimed in the year of 1910. Mrs. Dodds wanted the date of the holiday to be on her father’s birthday, which was the fifth of June, but the festivities had to be moved to the nineteenth of June so there would be enough time to prepare.

Eventually, annual celebrations blossomed throughout the United States and Canada, but it wasn’t until 1972, when Richard M. Nixon signed a congressional resolution that Father’s Day became established. Finally, over sixty years later, after it was first campaigned for, Father’s Day was officially established as being celebrated on the third Sunday of every June.
With the transformation of the American family throughout the years, this holiday was expanded to include honoring not only fathers, but also stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, guys that act as big brothers, and any other males that have played the father role in ones’ life.

Father’s Day SMS / Quote

Father’s Day SMS, Father’s Day Quotes, Father’s Day Sayings, Popular Father’s Day SMS on Father’s Holidays.

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His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand

Do u know what’s the meaning of FAMILY?
F=Father
A=And
M=Mother
I=I
L=Love
Y=Yooou

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The greatest gift.. I ever had..Came from God..I call him Dad!

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I know just the person who needs “101 Ways to Be a Great Dad”. Don’t worry it isn’t you! Happy Fathers’Day!

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You’ve seen me laugh You’ve seen me cry and always you were there with me I may not have always said it But thanks and I love you Happy Father’s Day.

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Some things are just better the way they are like you! Happy Father’s Day!

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God gave me the greatest gift I ever had,
God gave me a best friend in the form of my dad.
Father’s Day wishes for a dad who is one in a million!

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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.Happy Fathers’Day !
George Herbert,

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He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland

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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. Happy Father’s Day

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You may be out of sight but you’re always in my mind. Happy Father’s Day

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Thanks for being there through the tears, laughter and dirty diapers. Happy Father’s Day!

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For the best dad who always had a smile for me.
Though we may be far apart right now,
But here’s a big hug and kiss for you
To let you know how special you are
Happy Father’s Day!

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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. Happy Father’s Day

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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

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Dad, you’re someone to look up to no matter how tall I’ve grown.

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My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.
Josefowitz

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Good fathers make good sons

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A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with the snapshots of his kids.

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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

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My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad

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It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

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That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
August Strindberg

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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father
George Herbert quotes

Father’s Day in Various Countries

Father’s Day Celebration Date is varied among countries around the world. Let’s see when you should celebrate on Father’s Day😉

Father Day in Various Countries

Occurrence Country
  • March 19
Bolivia, Honduras, Italy (Festa del Papà), Liechtenstein, Andorra, Portugal, Spain (Día del Padre)
  • May 5
Romania (Ziua Barbatului)
  • May 8
Albania (Parents’ Day), South Korea (Parents’ Day)
  • Ascension Day (in the sixth week following Easter Sunday or 40 days after Jesus Resurrection)
Germany
  • First Sunday of June
Lithuania
  • June 5 (Constitution Day)
Denmark
  • Second Sunday of June
Autria, Belgium
  • Third Sunday of June
Argentina, Antigua, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, People’s Republic of China, China (Taiwan), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Ghana, Greece, Guyana, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singaporem, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
  • June 17
El Salvador, Guatemala
  • June 21
Syria, Lebanon
  • June 23
Nicaragua, Poland, Uganda
  • Last Sunday of June
Haiti
  • 13 Rajab (the seventh month of the Islamic calendar)
Iran
  • Second Sunday of July
Uruguay
  • Last Sunday of July
Dominican Republic
  • Second Sunday of August
Brazil
  • August 8
Taiwan
  • First Sunday of September
Australia, New Zealand
  • New Moon of September (there are 2 states of the moon: New Moon (black) and Full Moon)
Nepal
  • First Sunday of October
Luxemberg
  • Second Sunday of November
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden
  • December 5
Thailand (the birthday of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej)

Ref: wikipedia

Father’s Day in Different Languages

Happy Father Day in Different Languages

How to Say “Father” in Different Languages


Afrikaans : vader
Albanian : baba ; atë
Apalai (Amazon) : papa
Arabic : babba ; yebba ; abbi (classical)
Aragones : pai
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Bangla : Baba ; Abba
Basque : aita
Bolognese : pèder
Bosnian : otac
Brazilian Portuguese : pai
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Calabrese : patre ; patri ; pa ; papà ; papallu ; patra
Caló : batú ; bato ; batico ; dadá
Catalan : pare
Catanese : pattri ; opà
Chechen (Caucasus) : daa
Chechen : da
Cree (Canada) : -papa
Croatian : otac
Czech : táta, otec
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Dakota (USA) : ate
Dutch : vader ; papa ; pappie
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East African : baba
English : father ; dad ; daddy ; pop ; poppa ; papa
Esperanto : patro
Estonian : isa
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Faeroese : faðir
Filipino : tatay, itay, tay ; ama
Finnish : isä
Flemish : vader
French : papa
Frisian : heit
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Galician : pai
German : banketi, Papi
Griko Salentino : ciúri
Guaran : túva ; ru
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Hebrew : abba(h)
Hindi : Papa ; Pita-ji
Hungarian : apa
Hungarian : apa ; apu ; papa ; édesapa
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Icelandic : pabbi ; faðir
Indonesian : bapa ; ayah ; pak
Irish : athair ; daidí
Italian : babbo
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Japanese : otosan, papa
Judeo-Spanish : padre ; baba ; babu
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Kobon (New Guinea) : bap
Kurdish Kurmanji : bav
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Ladin : pere
Latin : pater ; papa ; atta
Latvian : tevs
Limburgian : vader ; vajer ; pap
Lithuanian : tevas ; pradininkas ; protevis
Lombardo Occidentale : bubà
Luo (Kenya) : baba
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Maasai : papa ; paapa ; olaiiu
Malagasy : ray
Malay : bapa
Malay : bapa
Maltese : missier
Mandarin : bà ; bàba (informal)
Mandarin Chinese : baba
Mantuan : upà ; papà ; babbo
Maori : haakoro ; kohake
Mapunzugun : chaw ; chao
Modern Greek : babbas
Moravian : tata
Mudnés : pèder
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Nadsat : Pee
Nahuatl (Mexico) : ta’
Napulitano : pate
Nepali : buwa
Norwegian : pappa ; far
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Persian/Farsi : pedar, pitar ; simply Baabaa
Pipil (El Salvador) : tatah
Polish : tata ; ojciec
Portuguese : pai
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Quechua (Ecuador) : tayta
Quechua : tata ; churiyaqe
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Romagnolo : bà
Romani : dad
Romanian : tata
Romanian : tata ; parinte ; taica
Romansh : bab
Russian : papa
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Samoan : tama
Sango : baba
Sanskrit : tàtah ; janak
Sardinian (Limba Sarda Unificada) : babu
Sardinian Campidanesu : babbu
Sardinian Logudoresu : babbu
Shona : baba
Sicilian : patri
Slovak : otec
Slovenian : ôèe
Spanish : papá ; viejo ; tata
Swahili : baba ; mzazi
Swedish : pappa
Swiss German : Vatter
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Tagalog : tatay ; ama
Turkish : baba
Turkmen : däde ; kaka
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Urdu : Abbu ; Abbu-ji ; Abbu-jan ; bap
Valencian : pare
Venetian : pare ; popà ; ‘opà ; pupà ; papà
Welsh : tad
Xhosa (South Africa) : -tata
Yiddish : tatti ; tay ; foter ; tateh
Zeneize : poæ

How to Say “Happy Mother’s Day” in Different Languages

Africa – bo-moschkido dad
Albanian – Gëzuar ditën e babait!
Arabic – كل عيد أب وأنت بخير (in Latin characters: Kullu eid abb wa anta bi-khayr)
Brazilian Portuguese – Feliz dia dos pais!
Chinese – 父亲节快乐 (fu qin jie kwai le)
Dutch – De gelukkige Dag van Vaders Ik hou van je, Vader (i love you, Dad)
European Portuguese – Feliz dia do pai!
French – Bonne fête des pères
German – Glücklicher Vatertag
Hungarian – Boldog apák napját!
Irish Lá na hAithreacha sona
Italiano Buona festa del papa
Japan – Yukai Otousan Dei
Korean – 사랑해요, 아빠! (i love you, dad)
Latin – Felix dies patrorum
Polish – Wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji dnia ojca
Persian – روز پدر مبارک
Portugese – Dia de pais feliz
Russian – Счастливый день отцов
Slovak – Všetko najlepšie ku dňu otcov!
Spanish – Feliz Día de Padres
Swedish – Grattis på farsdagen!
Tagalog – Maligayang araw ng mga tatay
Tamil – தந்தையர் தின நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்! (Thanthaiyar Thina NalvaazhththukkaL!)
Thai – สุขสันต์วันพ่อ (Sook-san-wan-por)
Urdu – Youm-e-Waalid Mubarak
Uruguay – Feliz Día del Padre