Father’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June in the US, Canada and most countries in Asia. Other countries like Spain and Belgium celebrate Father’s Day on March 19t. Sweden celebrates it on the second Sunday of November, and New Zealand on the first Sunday of September. Despite the different days, the expression of gratitude and appreciation for dads seems to be universal. Today families show respect for all father figures honoring grandfathers, stepfathers, uncles and other adult male figures that hold a special place in their lives.  The origin of Father’s Day in 1909 is widely credited to Sonora Louise Smart Dodd, from Spokane, Washington, who heard a Sunday church sermon about Mother’s Day and questioned why there was no corresponding day for Fathers. She was raised by her own father, William Jackson Smart, on a rural farm in Washington state after her mother died in childbirth.