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, 1873
Day of Week 9th » Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days.
Day of Week 18th » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the United States presidential election, 1872 named 1872 presidential election.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1873
3rd » Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
28th » Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
29th » Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
Famous Deaths for June 1873
1st » Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1804)
29th » Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1824)