What day does Father's Day fall on this year? Mother's Day?

Answer 1

May 13th Mother's Day

Different countries celebrate Mother's Day on various days of the year because the day has a number of different origins. One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship — which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus — was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March (March 15) to March 18. The romans also had another holiday,Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day.

In the United States, Mother's Day was originally conceived by

Ann Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who, starting in 1858, had attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers' Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors. In parts of the United States it is customary to plant tomatoes outdoors after mother's day (and not before.)

When Jarvis died, her daughter, named Anna Jarvis, started the crusade to found a memorial day for women. The first such Mother's Day was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia, on May 10, 1908, in the church where the elder Ann Jarvis had taught Sunday School. Grafton is the home to the International Mother's Day Shrine. From there, the custom caught on — spreading eventually to 45 states. The holiday was declared officially by somes states beginning in 1912. In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother's Day. Nine years after the first official Mother's Day holiday, commercialization of the U.S. holiday became so rampant that Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of what the holiday had become. Mother's Day continues to this day to be one of the most commercially successful U.S. holidays.
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Mother's Days in various parts of the world
Mother's Day is celebrated on different days throughout the world. Examining the trends in Google searches for the term "mothers day" shows two major blips, the smaller one on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and the larger one on the second Sunday in May.

second Sunday in February Norway
Shevat 30 (falls anywhere between January 30 and March 1) Israel
March 3 Georgia
March 8 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam . The date coincides with the International Women's Day.
fourth Sunday in Lent (Mothering Sunday - March 18 in 2007) Ireland, United Kingdom
March 21 (first day of spring) Bahrain, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
April 7 Armenia
first Sunday in May Hungary, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain
May 8 South Korea, Albania (Parents' Day)
May 10 much of South America, El Salvador, Guatemala, India, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Singapore
second Sunday in May
see: Mother's Day (United States) Anguilla, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados,Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Croatia, Curaçao, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Latvia, Malta, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
May 26 Poland
May 27 Bolivia
last Sunday in May France (except if it coincides with Pentecost day, in which case Mother's Day will be shifted to the first Sunday of June), Dominican Republic, Haiti, Sweden
May 30 Nicaragua
August 12 Thailand (the birthday of Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara)
August 15 (Assumption Day) Antwerp (Belgium), Costa Rica
second or third Sunday in October Argentina (Día de la Madre)
last Sunday in November Russia
December 8 Panama
December 22 Indonesia
20th Jumada al-thani (also called Women's Day) Iran and other Muslim peoples, especially Shias. The date is the (disputed) birthday of Fatima Zahra. The Islamic calendar is lunar so it cycles relative to the Western calendar.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day


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June 17th Father's Day

Father's Day is a primarily secular holiday inaugurated in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and parenting by males, and to honor and commemorate fathers and forefathers. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide, and typically involves gift-giving to fathers and family-oriented activities.

The officially recognised date of Father's Day varies from country to country. This section lists some significant examples.


[edit] March 19
Countries observing Father's Day on 19 March include:

Belgium (also secular celebration on the second Sunday of June), Italy, Portugal and Spain.

[edit] June 23
Countries observing Father's Day on 23 June include:

Poland and Nicaragua.

[edit] Third Sunday of June
Countries observing Father's Day on the third Sunday of June include:

Argentina, United States, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.India celebrate father's day on the first Sunday of June.

[edit] First Sunday of September
Countries observing Father's Day on the first Sunday of September include:

Australia and New Zealand.

[edit] Second Sunday of November
Countries observing Father's Day on the second Sunday of November include:

Estonia, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

[edit] Other dates
Countries with other celebration dates include:

Russia: February 23 (Defender of the Fatherland Day, a military holiday, seen by many as a men's day)
South Korea: May 8 (Parents' Day)
Germany: Ascension Day
Denmark: June 5 (also Constitution Day)
Lithuania: first Sunday of June
Austria: second Sunday of June
Vietnam: July 7 (Parents' Day)
Dominican Republic: last Sunday of July
Iran: 13 Rajab, birthday of Ali
Taiwan: August 8
The word for the date, bā bā, (8/8) is a near-homonym of the word for father in Chinese, "爸爸" bàba.
Brazil: second Sunday of August
Thailand: December 5 (birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day

Answer 2

Always on a Sunday: Mothers Day-May 13th. Fathers Day-June 17th

Answer 3

Both always fall on a Sunday. (Third Sunday in June and Second Sunday in May.) This year, that means Father's Day is June17th. Mother's Day is May 13th.

Answer 4

Sunday, just like every other year. This year, the date for Fathers' Day is 6/24. Mothers' Day is 5/6.

Answer 5

Father's Day is June 17th and Mother's Day is May 13th