When is Father’s Day in 2020? India Date, History and meaning behind it.

Father's Day

As we all know Mother’s Day celebration in Indian was take aback due to lockdown in India. But now it’s time for Father’s Day good news is that it comes at a time where India is under the Unlock phase and almost regular activity will be started by then. It is also believed to the first event after lockdown.

When is Father’s Day and It's Meaning 

A father means a lot of things to their children, A friend, role model, superhero, guide and always stand b them at all moments. To acknowledge this unconditional love and bond, every year Father’s Day is celebrated. It always falls on the 3rd Sunday of June month. In 2020, Father’s Day in Indian is taking place on 21 June. This event is not a public holiday and it is mostly celebrated in metro cites where children give gifts like (clothes, greeting cards, flowers, caked and other gifting items) to their fathers.

History of Father’s Day

Father’s Day was believed to be started by an American woman, who was born in Sebastian Country, Arkansas in 1982 and was raised by a widower Sonora Smart Dodd who died in when she was only 16. Dodd’s father, William Smart, who raised her and five brothers after their mother died. Dodd wanted to honor her father who raised the children alone and wanted to celebrate the Father’s Day on her Father’s Birthday on June 5. But later it was delayed to the 3rd Sunday on, June 19,1910
 
European countries Father’s Day is celebrated on St Joseph’s Day to recognize the special role of the male parent in a child’s life.
 

     

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International Men’s Day 

Father’s Day isn’t the only male-oriented celebration in the calendar. Contrary to a cacophony of angry, rhetorical tweets every International Women’s Day there is, in fact, also an International Men’s Day every year.

It falls on 19 November and was inaugurated in 1992 by Thomas Oaster, director of the Missouri Centre for Men’s Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

After a rocky start, it began to build momentum in the 2000s and has been marked in Britain in various ways since 2008.