<P> Father's Day in Argentina is celebrated on the third Sunday of June . </P> <P> There have been attempts to change the date to August 24, to commemorate the day on which the Father of the Nation José de San Martín became a father . In 1953, the proposal to celebrate Father's Day in all educational establishments on August 24, in honor of José de San Martín, was raised to the General Direction of Schools of Mendoza Province . The day was celebrated for the first time in 1958, on the third Sunday of June, but it was not included in the school calendars due to pressure from several groups . </P> <P> Schools in the Mendoza Province continued to celebrate Father's Day on August 24, and, in 1982, the provincial governor passed a law declaring Father's Day in the province to be celebrated on that day . </P> <P> In 2004, a proposal to change the date to August 24 were presented to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies as a single, unified project . </P>

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