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Father's Day was inaugurated in the United States in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fathers, fathering, and fatherhood. Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington, at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. [3] Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910.
21 May 2023 19 May 2024 18 May 2025 Tonga. Ascension Day. 18 May 2023 9 May 2024 29 May 2025 Germany. First Sunday in June 4 June 2023 2 June 2024 1 June 2025 Lithuania (Tėvo diena) Switzerland. 5 June Denmark [13] (also Constitution Day) Second Sunday in June 11 June 2023 9 June 2024 8 June 2025
The week of June 14 (June 11–17, 2023; June 09–15, 2024; June 08–14, 2025) is designated as "National Flag Week." During National Flag Week, the president will issue a proclamation "urging the people to observe the day as the anniversary of the adoption on June 14, 1777, by the Continental Congress of the Stars and Stripes as the official ...
Saint John's Eve, starting at sunset on 23 June, is the eve of the feast day of Saint John the Baptist. This is one of the very few feast days marking a saint's birth, rather than their death. The Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:26–37, 56–57) states that John was born six months before Jesus; therefore, the feast of John the Baptist was fixed on 24 ...
Summer solstice. The summer solstice or estival solstice[ i] occurs when one of Earth 's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere ( Northern and Southern ). For that hemisphere, the summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight and shortest night of the year, when the Sun is at ...
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. For decades, activists and congress members (led by many African Americans) proposed legislation, advocated for, and built support for state and national observances. During his campaign for president in June 2020, Joe Biden publicly celebrated the holiday. [ 125]
2025 May 29 June 1 2026 May 14: May 21 May 17 2027 May 6: June 10 May 9 2028 May 25 May 28 2029 ... The next day is appropriately a Saturday of the Dead ...
The Feast of the Sacred Heart is a solemnity in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. [ 2] According to the General Roman Calendar since 1969, it is formally known as the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus ( Latin: Sollemnitas Sacratissimi Cordis Iesu) and celebrated on the second Friday after Trinity Sunday ...