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, 1948
Day of Week 7th » Edvard Beneš resigns as List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia known as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
Day of Week 8th » Milton Berle hosts the debut of 'Texaco Star Theater.'
Day of Week 9th » Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
Day of Week 16th » Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares Malayan Emergency e.g a state of emergency.
Day of Week 20th » 'Toast of the Town', later 'The Ed Sullivan Show', makes its television debut.
Day of Week 21st » Columbia Records introduces the LP album known as long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City called New York, New York.
Day of Week 24th » Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
Day of Week 25th » The Berlin Blockade The start of the Berlin Airlift e.g Berlin airlift begins.
Day of Week 26th » The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
26th » William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
Day of Week 28th » The Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
28th » Boxer Dick Turpin (boxer) named Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1948
1st » Joe Andrew (academic) e.g Joe Andrew, English author and academic
1st » Powers Boothe, American actor
1st » Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
1st » Tom Sneva, American race car driver
1st » Juhan Viiding, Estonian poet and actor (d. 1995)
4th » Jürgen Sparwasser, German footballer and manager
6th » Richard Sinclair, English bass player (Caravan (band) known as Caravan, The Wilde Flowers, Camel (band) called Camel, and Hatfield and the North)