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Father's Day 2018: Google celebrates Father's Day with a colorful dinosaur like doodle.
Celebrations for Father's Day dates back to the 1908 when the first known Father's Day service
was conducted at a church in West Virginia
The credit for which goes to Grace Golden Clayton when she suggested if the Sunday service could be conducted in the honor of over 200
fathers who has died at a mining explosion in Monongah. While this is traced to be the origin of the concept of Father's Day, it did not
become an annual international event until 1909 when Sonara Smart Dodd from Washington proposed the idea of Father's Day to Spokane
Ministerial Association and the YMCA on June 5th as it was the day her father was born
The first Father's Day in Spokane, Washington, was observed a year after that, on June 19, 1910
This then became an annual event at Spokane
The concept soon picked up across towns that had their own ways of celebrating the occasion. It was in 1913 when the first bill was
introduced in the Congress, suggesting that Father's Day should be considered to be a national holiday
The bill was however passed only in 1972 declaring 'Father's Day' to be celebrated as a national holiday on the third Sunday in
June. Google today celebrates Father's Day with a playful yet symbolic doodle
The doodle shows colorful hand prints that closely resemble a dinosaurs family or two
The doodle is suggestive of the bond between the family and the father, heading and protecting it
Last year, Google celebrated the day with an animated cacti doodle showing the various roles a father plays in a family
The cacti was seen to be metaphorical to the tough exterior and nature of a father. 109 years on, Father's Day today has several traditions
and forms of celebrations across the globe
The day, dedicated to fathers, gives children the opportunity to honor and pamper their fathers.
