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, 1875
Day of Week 19th » The Herzegovina Uprising (1875–77) e.g Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1875
2nd » Charles Stewart Mott, American businessman and politician, 50th List of mayors of Flint, Michigan or Mayor of Flint, Michigan (d. 1973)
6th » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize in Literature named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
8th » Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (d. 1934)
9th » Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
12th » Sam De Grasse, Canadian-American actor (d. 1953)
13th » Paul Neumann (swimmer) or Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician (d. 1932)
15th » Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian skier (d. 1987)
20th » Reginald Punnett, English geneticist, statistician, and academic (d. 1967)