Father's Day Timeline
1910 - Spokane celebrated the first Father's Day on June 19, the anniversary of William Jackson Smart's birthday.
1924 - President Calvin Coolidge publicly supported plans for a national Father's Day.
1966 - President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed Father's Day to be an official national holiday.
1972 - President Richard Nixon signed into law a permanent U.S. Father's Day to be observed on the third Sunday of June.

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