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Every year on the third Sunday in June, we celebrate Dad with his own day.  The idea sprang from the mind of one woman who thought that fathers, just like mothers, deserved their own holiday. Sonora Louise Smart Dodd of Spokane, WA, celebrated the first Father's Day on June 19, 1910;  her father's birthday.

In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge publicly supported a national Father's Day, and in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed it a national holiday. Following up in 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a permanent U.S. Father's Day into law, observed on the third Sunday in June.

According to cnn.com, Father's Day is also the fourth-largest card-sending occasion (94 million to be exact). Here's a breakdown of the other number-crunching facts that follow this holiday.

Let's go to 70.1 million – This is the estimated number of fathers in the United States.

Let's go to 24.7 million – This is the number of married men with children under 18 at home in the United States.

Let's go to 170,000 – This is the number of single fathers raising three or more children.

Let's go to $117.14 – This dollar value is the estimated amount that the average person spent on Father’s Day gifts in '12.

Let's go to $12.7 billion – This is the estimated number amount that consumers spent on Father’s Day cards and gifts in '12.

Let's go to 1910 – This number was first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, WA.

Let's go to 0 – This is the number of children fathered by Presidents George Washington, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, and Warren Harding.

Let's go to 1 – This number is the highest chart position on the Billboard Hot 100 for “Papa Don’t Preach” by Madonna (made in '86).

Let's go to 3 – This is the number of awards won by the Temptations’ song “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” at the 1972 Grammy Awards.

Let's go to 1972 – This number is the year President Richard Nixon signed the law that designates the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day.

Have a blessed & safe Father's Day!