Giving time to mom and buying gifts for mom was his day's program. Then in the United States of West Virginia, the first Mother's Day was celebrated on June 2, 1858. US President Woodrow Ulhson first announced Mother's Day as a public holiday. Gifts of Mother's Day White Carnation Flowers are very popular. Commercially, "Mother's Day" is the 3rd largest card-issuing day in the world. A United States survey found that "Mother's Day" has more than one phone call