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Father’s Day was observed this year on Sunday, June 16. This special day to honour and celebrate fathers has a history of over a
Father’s Day was observed this year on Sunday, June 16. This special day to honour and celebrate fathers has a history of over a
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2015-03-20
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Father’s Day was observed this year on Sunday, June 16. This special day to honour and celebrate fathers has a history of over a century behind it. In 1909 there was a woman named Sonora Dodd. She was in church at a【B1】______for Mother’s Day, which is celebrated in May.
Her mother had died in【B2】______, leaving her father to raise her and her five brothers and sisters. She thought about how difficult it had been for her father to raise six children【B3】______. She decided that since there was a day honouring mothers, there should also be one【B4】______fathers.
Sonora Dodd【B5】______the idea in her home state of Washington, in the Pacific Northwest. The first Father’s Day was celebrated in June of 1910 in the city of Spokane. June was the month in which her father was born.
At first Sonora Dodd had found little support. But in the years that followed, the idea of Father’s Day【B6】______the country. It gained the【B7】______of President Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Yet he never signed an【B8】______proclamation, as he did two years earlier for the first Mother’s Day.
President Calvin Coolidge in 1924 added his support to a national【B9】______of Father’s Day. Then in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson declared it the third Sunday in June. Finally, in 1972, President Richard Nixon made it【B10】______.
Some other countries also celebrate Father’s Day, some on the third Sunday in June, others on a different day.
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service
解析
意为“宗教礼仪”。
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