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, 1921
Day of Week 1st » Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Day of Week 6th » Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Mary of Teck known as Queen Mary.
Day of Week 20th » Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a 1921 Buckingham and Carnatic Mills Strike or four-month strike.
Day of Week 28th » Serbian King Alexander I of Serbia known as Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
Day of Week 30th » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1921
1st » Nelson Riddle, American composer and bandleader (d. 1985)
2nd » Betty Freeman, American photographer and philanthropist (d. 2009)
2nd » Sigmund Sternberg, Hungarian-English businessman and philanthropist
2nd » András József Szennay, Hungarian clergyman (d. 2012)
3rd » Forbes Carlile, Australian pentathlete and coach