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, 1838
Day of Week 10th » Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
Day of Week 28th » Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1838
2nd » Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (d. 1900)
16th » Frederic Archer, English organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1901)
16th » Cushman Kellogg Davis, American lieutenant and politician, 7th Governor of Minnesota (d. 1900)
27th » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1894)
27th » Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (d. 1914)
Famous Deaths for June 1838
25th » François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (b. 1774)