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, 1883
Day of Week 5th » The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
Day of Week 16th » The Victoria Hall disaster called Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear known as Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1883
5th » John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
7th » Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1948)
12th » Fernand Gonder, French pole vaulter (d. 1969)
21st » Feodor Gladkov, Russian author and educator (d. 1958)
21st » Daisy Turner (storyteller) called Daisy Turner, American author and poet (d. 1988)
24th » Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
24th » Arthur L. Newton, American runner (d. 1956)
24th » Frank Verner, American runner (d. 1966)
28th » Pierre Laval, French politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)