Father's Day Countdown
Father's Day in the United States falls on the third Sunday of June. This countdown automatically targets the next one.
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How many days until Father's Day?
Father's Day is on Sunday, June 20, 2027, which is 353 days away. The live countdown above ticks down to the exact moment, to the second.
A daughter's idea
Sonora Smart Dodd, raised with her five siblings by a Civil War veteran single father, organized the first Father's Day in Spokane, Washington, in 1910 after hearing a Mother's Day sermon.
A long road to official
It took six decades of on-and-off observance before President Nixon signed Father's Day into permanent law in 1972.
Quick facts
- Observed on the third Sunday of June in the US
- First celebrated in Spokane, Washington, in 1910
- Made a permanent national holiday in 1972
- Inspired by a Mother's Day sermon
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