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, 1850
Day of Week 19th » Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Charles XV of Sweden or Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
Day of Week 29th » Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
6th » Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
18th » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (d. 1914)
19th » David Jayne Hill, American historian and politician, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1932)
21st » Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, co-founded the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941)
21st » Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1928)
24th » Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish field marshal and politician, List of governors of pre-independence Sudan or Governor-General of Sudan (d. 1916)
27th » Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919)
27th » Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese author (d. 1904)
Famous Deaths for June 1850
16th » William Lawson (explorer) named William Lawson, English-Australian explorer (b. 1774)