The First observance of a day honoring fathers
Time: Sunday Jul 5, 1908
Place: Fairmont, West Virginia, U.S.
Details: Father's Day was not celebrated in the US, outside Catholic traditions, until the 20th century. As a civic celebration in the US, it was inaugurated in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day by celebrating fathers and male parenting. After Anna Jarvis' successful promotion of Mother's Day in Grafton, West Virginia, the first observance of a day honoring fathers was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church.
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Ho Chi Minh-The Steamer arrived In Marseille
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Tuesday Jul 5, 1927 - Germany
World War II-Battle of Kursk
Monday Jul 5, 1943 - Kursk, U.S.S.R.
Korean War-The Battle of Osan
Wednesday Jul 5, 1950 - Osan, South Korea
Algerian War-The declaration of independence
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Thursday Jul 5, 1984 - Naples, Italy
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Thursday Jul 5, 1990 - Kosovo
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Tuesday Jul 5, 2011 - Washington D.C., U.S.
International Monetary Fund-First female Managing Director
Tuesday Jul 5, 2011 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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July 1908
Flag of the United States-Star for Oklahoma
Saturday Jul 4, 1908 - U.S.
Ottoman Empire-Young Turk Revolution
Jul, 1908 - Ottoman Empire
Armenian Genocide-Armenians' hopes for equality in the Ottoman Empire brightened when a coup d'état staged by officers in the Ottoman Third Army
Friday Jul 24, 1908 - Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Now Thessaloniki, Greece)
Titanic-Drawings
Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 - Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
1908
Albert Einstein-Lecturer at Bern
1908 - Bern, Switzerland
Xinhai Revolution-The Imperial Resident In Lhasa
1908 - Lhasa, Tibet, China
Franklin D. Roosevelt-First Job
1908 - New York, U.S.
Xinhai Revolution-The Revolutionaries began To Shift Their Call To The New Armies
1908 - China
John Maynard Keynes-Return to Cambridge
1908 - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Marcus Garvey-Mother died
Mar, 1908 - Kingston, Jamaica
Plague-Plague infection is first reported in Ecuador and Venezuela
1908 - Ecuador and Venezuela
Xinhai Revolution-Qin-lian Uprising
Friday Mar 27, 1908 - Qinzhou, Guangxi, China
Winston Churchill-Churchill was appointed President of the Board of Trade
Wednesday Apr 8, 1908 - London, England, United Kingdom
Winston Churchill-Churchill lost the Manchester North West
Friday Apr 24, 1908 - England, United Kingdom
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Birth
Tuesday Apr 28, 1908 - Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (Now: Czech Republic)
Xinhai Revolution-Hekou Uprising
Thursday Apr 30, 1908 - Hekou, Honghe, Yunnan, China
The Wright brothers-First fixed-wing aircraft passenger on a few short flights
Thursday May 14, 1908 - U.S.
Carter G. Woodson-Woodson attended the University of Chicago
1908 - University of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Library of Congress-Schatz collection of early opera librettos
1908 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Disasters with highest death tolls-Tunguska Event
Tuesday Jun 30, 1908 - Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Siberia, Russian Empire
Juneteenth-Texas and all former Confederate states passed new constitutions or amendments that effectively disenfranchised black people
1908 - U.S.
Flag of the United States-Star for Oklahoma
Saturday Jul 4, 1908 - U.S.
Ottoman Empire-Young Turk Revolution
Jul, 1908 - Ottoman Empire
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Friday Jul 24, 1908 - Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Now Thessaloniki, Greece)
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Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 - Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
The Wright brothers-Some newspapers that called him a "bluffeur"
Saturday Aug 8, 1908 - Le Mans, France
Wind turbine-The Spread in U.S.
1908 - U.S.
The Wright brothers-Demonstrating another nearly identical Flyer to the United States Army
Thursday Sep 3, 1908 - Virginia, U.S.
The Wright brothers-The First hour-long flight
Wednesday Sep 9, 1908 - U.S.
Ottoman Empire-Austria-Hungary officially annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina
1908 - Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Wright brothers-The First airplane crash fatality
Thursday Sep 17, 1908 - U.S.
Plane Accidents-The first powered aircraft crash
Thursday Sep 17, 1908 - Fort Myer, Virginia, U.S.
Winston Churchill-Churchill and Clementine Hozier married
Sep, 1908 - London, England, United Kingdom
John Maynard Keynes-Civil Service career
Oct, 1908 - London, England
The Wright brothers-The First American woman passenger
Wednesday Oct 7, 1908 - U.S.
Xinhai Revolution-Mapaoying Uprising
Thursday Nov 19, 1908 - Anhui, China
Marcus Garvey-Garvey became a trade unionist and took a leading role
Nov, 1908 - Jamaica
Xinhai Revolution-Allowing The Gentry and businessmen To Participate In Politics
Dec, 1908 - China
Mother's Day-The First Celebration
1908 - Grafton, West Virginia, U.S.
Mother's Day-Congress rejected a proposal to make Mother's Day an official holiday
1908 - Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., U.S.
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Thursday Dec 10, 1908 - Stockholm, Sweden
Disasters with highest death tolls-1908 Messina Earthquake
Monday Dec 28, 1908 - Italy