June Dates to Celebrate

JUNE 2010 DATES TO CELEBRATE

1          Anniversary of the Debut of Superman – 1938
2          National Leave the Office Early Day
4          Cheese Day
5          Anniversary of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - 1968
6          National Cancer Survivors Day
            Anniversary of D-Day – 1944
            National Applesauce Cake Day
National Yo-Yo Day
8          National Jelly-filled Donut Day
9          76th Birthday of Donald Duck – 1934
            National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day
10        75th Anniversary of the Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous – 1935
            Ballpoint Pen’s Birthday - 1943
11        Corn on the Cob Day
12        National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
14        National Strawberry Shortcake Day
16        National Fudge Day
17        Eat Your Vegetables Day
            Recess at Work Day
18        International Picnic Day
19        Garfield’s Birthday – 1978
20        Father’s Day
Ice Cream Soda Day
National Bald Eagle Day
21        Baby Boomers Recognition Day
21        Summer Begins
24        National Handshake Day
26        Full Moon

FATHER’S DAY

The American tradition of celebrating Father’s Day was the idea of Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, WA.  She got it while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon at her church in May 1910.  She thought about her widowed father, William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran, who raised her and her five brothers alone and other fathers everywhere for their unsung feats. 

Dodd proposed to Spokane city officials that the first Father’s Day be observed on June 5, 1910, which was her father’s birthday.  President Richard Nixon signed a Congressional resolution declaring the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day