Father is June 16 in 2019 and Father's Day is the 3rd Sunday in June.

In 1909, the year of Mr. Smart's resignation, when Mrs. Dodd attended the church's Mother's Day Thanksgiving service, she especially missed her father, Mrs. Dodd knew in her heart the love and hardship her father had put into raising her children, Mrs. Dodd told Rev. Rasmus of the church about her feelings and wished for a special day to honor the memory of the whole world's great father.

Her idea was approved by the pastor and supported by various church organizations, and Mrs. Dodd then wrote a letter to the mayor and the state government expressing her idea and suggesting that her father's birthday, June 5 of each year, be celebrated as Father's Day.

China's Father's Day origin, dating back to the Republican period, August 8, 1945, Shanghai launched a celebration of Father's Day, the public immediately responded to the victory of the war of resistance against Japan, the city of Shanghai celebrities from all walks of life, a joint request for the Shanghai Municipal Government to submit to the central government, set the "dad" harmonic August 8 for the nationwide Father's Day. Father's Day, in the Father's Day, people wear flowers, to express their respect for their fathers and thoughts.