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, 1864
Day of Week 3rd » American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
Day of Week 5th » American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union (American Civil War) Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate States of America Confederate army at Piedmont, Augusta County, Virginia Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
Day of Week 12th » American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
Day of Week 15th » American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
15th » Arlington National Cemetery is established when convert 200 acre km² around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by United States Secretary of War U.S. Secretary of War Edw
Day of Week 21st » American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
21st » New Zealand land wars known as New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
Day of Week 30th » President of the United States or U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
Famous Birthdays on June in 1864
3rd » Otto Erich Hartleben, German poet and playwright (d. 1905)
3rd » Ransom E. Olds, American businessman, founded Oldsmobile and REO Motor Car Company (d. 1950)
11th » Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
12th » Frank Chapman (ornithologist) or Frank Chapman, American ornithologist (d. 1945)
13th » Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and politician (d. 1922)
13th » Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (d. 1939)
14th » Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (d. 1915)
21st » Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss historian and critic (d. 1945)
22nd » Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician and academic (d. 1909)
25th » Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize in chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
30th » Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect and archaeologist (d. 1945)
Famous Deaths for June 1864
1st » Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel, led the Taiping Rebellion (b. 1812)