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Fathers Day 2012

Fathers Day 2012

What is Fathers Day?

  • To wish a father for his unending and self-less duties towards our life, we celebrate fathers day.
  • Just like celebrating mother’s day to wish her how special she is in our life, fathers day is also a similar celebration to the expression of male parenting or fatherhood important.

Why Fathers Day is Celebrated?

  • Fathers Day is celebrated to honor every father and to make father’s realize how special he is in everyone’s life.

Fathers Day 2012 Celebration times in different country

Fathers Day 2012 is celebrated in different countries in different time of the year.

Fathers Day Dates
Fathers Day Around the World Celebrations Date Fathers Day 2012 Date
Fathers Day in Argentina 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Antigua 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Bahamas 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Bangladesh 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Bulgaria 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Canada 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Chile 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in China 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Colombia 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Costa Rica 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Cuba 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Cyprus 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Czech Republic 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Ecuador 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in France 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Ghana 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Greece 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Guyana 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Hong Kong 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Hungary 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in India 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Ireland 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Jamaica 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Japan 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Malaysia 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Malta 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Mauritius 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Mexico 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Netherlands 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Pakistan 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Panama 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Paraguay 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Peru 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Philippines 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Puerto Rico 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Singapore 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Slovakia 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in South Africa 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Sri Lanka 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Switzerland 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Trinidad and Tobago 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Turkey 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in United Kingdom 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Ukraine 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in United States 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Venezuela 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Zimbabwe 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Barbados 17th June, 2012
Fathers Day in Haiti 17th June, 2012

Different tradition and belief in different countries on Fathers Day

Fathers Day 2012 is Celebrated in United States

  • In this region, first fathers day celebration was on 21st June in the year 1908.
  • Fathers Day was celebrated at Fairmont in West Virginia.
  • In the same year, Fathers Day was also celebrated on 19th June in Washington.
  • It was initially celebrated as a service of church in West Virginia at Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South and it is also known as Central United Methodist Church.
  • Grace Golden Clayton, who is known to have declared this service in the great memory of those fathers or men who died in dreadful incident of mines explosion nearby Monongah during the time of December.
  • This uncanny incident killed around 361 men and several of them was immigrant from Italy to the United States.
  • Another belief hidden behind the story, this fathers day celebration may be the inspirational outcome of mother’s day which took place just two months before at that time for the first time at Grafton in West Virginia.
  • According to few source, there lies another inspirational story behind this fathers day celebration.
  • Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd, who was reared up only by her father along with her five more siblings, took the initiative of celebration Fathers Day on June 5th as that was her fathers death anniversary.
  • Her father, William Jackson Smart was a veteran of Civil War, who brought up his six children in Spokane being a single parent. But unfortunately due to lack of organizers, this celebration took place on 19th June in the year 1910 at Spokane in WA.

Fathers Day 2012 is Clebrated in Colombia

  • In Colombia region, fathers day celebration takes place throughout the city.
  • People celebrate Fathers Day by going on outdoor lunch with the family.
  • Various commercial activities take place with the reference of fathers day ranging from cars to cell phones.
  • Most of the fathers get clothes, watches, wallet and various other special gifts from the family.

Fathers Day 2012 is Celebrated in Thailand

  • In this region, fathers day is celebrated as the king’s birthday.
  • Now, 5th December is the celebration of recent king “Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX)”.

Fathers Day 2012 is Celebrated in Germany

  • There is no such celebration of Fathers day in Germany.
  • But they celebrate Männertag on Ascension Day, which is supposedly one Thursday forty days after Easter.
  • This is actually known as men’s day or Männertag or Herrentag (gentlemen's day).
  • It is actually the hiking tour only for males with one or two small wagons, in which there remain beer or wine and some traditional foods like Liverwurst, Blutwurst or Blood Sausage, Saumagen, eggs and vegetables etc.
  • Few parts of Germany, it is famously known as "Vatertag", which is literally similar to fathers day.









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