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, 1861
Day of Week 1st » American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861): the first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate States Army known as Confederate combat casualty.
Day of Week 3rd » American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (West Virginia) Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) Union (American Civil War) Union forces rout Confederate States of America Confederate troops in Barbour County, West Virginia Barbour County, Virgi
Day of Week 8th » American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union (American Civil War) called Union.
Day of Week 10th » American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel - Confederate States of America or Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union (American Civil War) or Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
Day of Week 17th » American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1861
2nd » Concordia Selander, Swedish actress and manager (d. 1935)
9th » Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician, and historian (d. 1916)
9th » Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (d. 1938)
12th » William Attewell, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1927)
17th » Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
17th » Omar Bundy, American general (d. 1940)
19th » Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (d. 1928)