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, 1745
Day of Week 16th » British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
16th » War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the French colonial empires known as French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia (Old Style).
Day of Week 28th » War of the Austrian Succession: A New England colonial army captures Louisbourg (community) or Louisbourg, New France, after a Siege of Louisbourg (1745) known as forty-seven-day siege (New Style).
Famous Birthdays on June in 1745
8th » Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (d. 1818)