June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of the four months with a length of 30 days. June is the month with the longest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere. June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological summer is 1 June. In the Southern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological winter is 1 June.
June symbols: The birthstones of June are pearl, alexandrite and moonstone. The birth flower is rose. The zodiac signs for the month of June are Gemini (until June 20) and Cancer (June 21 onwards).
Historical Events for June, 1796
Day of Week 1st » Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state known as state of the United States.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1796
1st » Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (d. 1832)
14th » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1866)
20th » Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, Italian cardinal (d. 1878)
26th » Jan Paweł Lelewel, Polish painter (d. 1847)
Famous Deaths for June 1796
11th » Samuel Whitbread (1720–1796) e.g Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded the Whitbread called Whitbread Company (b. 1720)
21st » Richard Gridley, American soldier and engineer (b. 1710)
30th » Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1724)