Father's Day is a special celebration in Ecuador that takes place every third Sunday in June . Father's Day 2021 is June 20 . During this day we seek to recognize and pay tribute to all parents and those who have fulfilled the father figure in people's lives.
This celebration is a little over 110 years old. Do you want to know how it was born? Read on and find out.
Origin of Father's Day in Ecuador
The origin of the celebration of Father's Day in Ecuador has been celebrated since the 1960s and its origin dates back to the United States with Sonora Smart Dood, daughter of Henry Jackson Smart; veteran of the civil war, who had the initiative to promote a special date to pay tribute to his father because his mother had died when she gave birth to her sixth child, so Jackson took over the family.
During the Mother's Day speech, Sonora proposed that every June 5; The date his father was on his birthday, Father's Day will be celebrated with the aim of highlighting the work of fathers in family life. Unfortunately, at first the initiative did not prosper; It took 15 years for President Calvin Coolidge to endorse this idea and encourage its celebration.
However, it was not until 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson signed a document making official the celebration of Father's Day for the third Sunday in June as proposed by the Spokane Ministerial Alliance in Washington.
The first Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910 and over the years, various nations such as Ecuador began to include this celebration in their respective calendars of ephemeris and special dates.