Every year, millions of families around the world celebrate Father's Day with cards, gifts, family lunches and heartfelt messages.
But few know that the holiday began with a daughter who simply wanted the world to appreciate her father.
The story takes us back more than a century to Spokane, Washington, in the United States.
In 1909, a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd sat in church listening to a Mother's Day sermon. As people spoke about honouring mothers, her thoughts drifted to her own father, William Jackson Smart.
A Civil War veteran and single parent, William had raised six children after the death of his wife. At a time when such responsibilities often fell to women, he took on the challenge of caring for his family alone.
