My dad - Paul Z. Kissner - describes how he spent his summers growing up in NYC.
RIP 1940-2019.
When Is Father's Day Weekend 2023?
- Father's Day weekend is on Sunday, June 18th, 2023. Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June in the United States.
How Did Father's Day Start?
- History.com says that Father's Day started after a West Virginia church sponsored a Sunday sermon - the first national event "explicitly in honor of fathers..." The one time event honored the men lost in the 1907 Monongah mining disaster.
- The year after, Sonora Smart Dodd successfully campaigned to make Father's Day a statewide holiday in Washington on June 19, 1910.
When Did Father's Day Become A National Holiday?
- Father's Day became a national holiday in the United States in 1972.