Origin of Father's Day in Chile

Father's Day is a special date in which the father figure is celebrated in ours. This anniversary is celebrated around the world on different dates. In Chile , for this 2021 the celebration will take place on June 20.

Here we tell you how Father's Day was born and why it is celebrated on June 20.

Origin of Father's Day in Chile

The origin of the Father's Day celebration in Chile 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 dads 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. Over the years, various nations such as Chile , joined the celebration of Father's Day.

However, unlike the other countries in our country, Father's Day is celebrated on June 19 according to a decree signed by the dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1976, although that date is close to the third Sunday of the month.