Father's Day Discount in Denver

Are you looking for somewhere in Denver to spend Father's Day this year, a place the entire family can enjoy? Why not head over to Fun City in Littleton? This Sunday, June 16, 2013, all dads bowl free at Fun City.

Have you ever wondered how Father's Day began? The first event in the U.S. to honor fathers took place on July 5, 1908, at a church in West Virginia. The celebration was to honor the memory of 362 men who died at the Fairmont Coal Company mines the previous year. The following year, Sonora Smart Dodd, a woman in Spokane,Washington, attempted to create a holiday for men very similar to that of Mother's Day. Her success at petitioning for the holiday resulted in the first statewide celebration of Father's Day on July 19, 1910, in Washington.

Although Father's Day gained in popularity over the years, it did not become a federal holiday until 1972, the year President Richard Nixon signed a proclamation to make it a holiday.