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On June 19, 1910, the governor of the U.S. state of Washington proclaimed the nationâs first âFatherâs Day.â However, it was not until 1972, 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Motherâs Day official, that the day became a nationwide holiday in the United States.
People have been trying to answer those questions for a long time. The New York Times pondered the dayâs origin in 1853 but called it âone of those mysterious historical or antiquarian problems which are doomed never to be solved.â. Photo. The New York Times pondered the history of Valentineâs Day in 1853. Well, itâs 2017 so weâre going to try again. Here is a brief guide to some of the major Valentineâs Day theories, from ancient Rome to the present. It could have been a Roman Bacchanal The most common explanation for how Valentineâs Day came to be is the ancient festival of Lupercalia, a raucous, wine-fueled fertility rite in which Roman men and women paired off. This theory has appeared in news articles for decades.