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).
Famous Birthdays on June in 1869
20th » Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Indian businessman, founded the Kirloskar Group (d. 1956)
24th » Prince George of Greece and Denmark (d. 1957)
26th » Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish journalist and author (d. 1954)
27th » Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist (d. 1961)
27th » Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-American philosopher and activist (d. 1940)
27th » Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
Famous Deaths for June 1869
16th » Charles Sturt, Indian-English explorer (b. 1795)
20th » Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese commander (b. 1835)