Â­. Â­If you've ever heard a car engine running without a muffler, you know what a huge difference a muffler can make to the noise level. Inside a muffler, you'll find a deceptively simple set of tubes with some holes in them.
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.
After Spokane named the third Sunday in June Father's Day, cities around the U.S. sporadically held similar observances. In 1916, two years after he proclaimed May 9 as Mother's Day, President Woodrow Wilson verbally approved Father's Day, but he didn't sign a proclamation for it [source: Library of Congress].