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, 1876
Day of Week 2nd » Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
Day of Week 4th » An express train called the 'Transcontinental Express' arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad (North America) or First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
Day of Week 25th » Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1876
5th » Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and educator (d. 1957)
8th » Alexandre Tuffère, Greek-French triple jumper (d. 1958)
11th » Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
13th » William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
15th » Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer (d. 1955)
17th » William Carr (rower) or William Carr, American rower (d. 1942)