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, 1960
Day of Week 17th » The Nez Perce people Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for convert 7 e6acre km2 of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
Day of Week 20th » The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
Day of Week 23rd » The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Mestranol/norethynodrel named Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
Day of Week 25th » Two cryptography or cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there Martin and Mitchell Defection named defected to the Soviet Union.
Day of Week 26th » The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
26th » Madagascar gains its independence from France.
Day of Week 30th » Belgian Congo or Congo gains independence from Belgium.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1960
1st » Simon Gallup, English bass player (The Cure, Fools Dance, The Magazine Spies, and Lockjaw (band) known as Lockjaw)
1st » Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
1st » Sergey Kuznetsov (footballer, born 1960) known as Sergey Kuznetsov, Russian footballer and manager
1st » Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician, 8th List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus e.g Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus
18th » Barbara Broccoli, American director and producer
18th » Steve Murphy (Canadian news anchor) e.g Steve Murphy, Canadian journalist
19th » Andrew Dilnot, English economist and academic
19th » Johnny Gray, American runner
19th » Luke Morley, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Union (band) The Union, Terraplane (band) Terraplane, and Thunder (band) Thunder)
20th » John Taylor (bass guitarist) called John Taylor, English bass player, songwriter, producer, and actor (Duran Duran, Power Station (band) known as Power Station, and Neurotic Outsiders)