Father's day started in 1910 when Sonora Smart Dodd petitioned the Ministerial Alliance of Spokane Washington to honor father's. Sonora held her father in high esteem and felt strongly that Fatherhood needed recognition as well as motherhood. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the third Sunday of June as Father's Day. To help you honor your father, your hero, everything is 10% off at Speak To Me Catalog.