Inspired by the earliest U.S. Mother's Days, Sonora Smart Dodd, who had been raised by her widowed father, felt that fathers needed a day to honor them too. She organized the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910. The idea spread, and in 1924 President Calvin Coolidge first proclaimed a U.S.-wide holiday for Father's Day, but it was re-proclaimed yearly until 1966 when Lyndon Johnson finally declared the third Sunday of June a permanent holiday.