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, 1760
Day of Week 4th » Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
Day of Week 27th » Cherokee warriors defeat British Empire called British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina during the Anglo-Cherokee War.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1760
5th » Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (d. 1852)
Famous Deaths for June 1760
13th » Antoine Court (Huguenot) e.g Antoine Court, French minister (b. 1696)