Father’s Day featuring 23 best celebrity Fathers
As sons and daughters across the world celebrate Father’s Day this Sunday few know Dad’s special day hits its centennial on June 20, 2010. Still, fewer know how it all began. According to the Economic Times, in 1909, a Mother’s Day sermon at church inspired Spokane resident Sonora Smart-Dodd, one of six children being raised by a single dad, to honor her father. She encouraged local churches to institute the first Father’s Day observance the next year, and the idea has since caught on. Father’s Day became a national holiday in the US in 1972, when President Richard Nixon declared it to be the third Sunday of June.
This centennial, Parenting.com inspiringly reveres great fatherhood featuring 23 of the best celebrity fathers: 1. Brad Pitt 2. Peter Facinelli 3. David Beckham 4. Seal 5. Usher 6. Ben Affleck 7. Matt Damon 8. Jamie Oliver 9. Johnny Depp 10. Will Smith 11. Jon Stewart 12. Barack Obama 13. Ryan Phillippe 14. Tim McGraw 15. Will Ferrell 16. Matthew McConaughey 17. Tobey Maguire 18. Jack Black 19. Chris Martin 20. Conan O’Brien 21. Chris Noth 22. Tom Cruise 23. Brad Paisley
Celebrity or not there still time to make Father’s Day special for the fathers in your life. Consider these five films celebrating fatherhood: National Lampoons Vacation (1983) The Pursuit of Happiness (2006) Finding Nemo (2003) Meet the Parents (2000) Junior (1994) and for additional gift ideas visit www.redenvelope.com, www.askmen.com and/or www.familyfun.go.com for Father’s Day crafts.
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