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).
Day of Week 16th » General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty History of Sinn Féin e.g Sinn Féin win a large majority.
Day of Week 22nd » Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
Day of Week 28th » The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Irish Free State named Free State forces.
Day of Week 29th » France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
Day of Week 30th » In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924) named United States occupation
Famous Birthdays on June in 1922
1st » Joan Caulfield, American actress and model (d. 1991)
1st » Joan Copeland, American actress
1st » Povel Ramel, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2007)
2nd » Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
2nd » Charlie Sifford, American golfer
2nd » Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress (d. 2002)
3rd » Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
5th » Paul Couvret, Dutch-Australian pilot and politician (d. 2013)