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, 1886
Day of Week 2nd » The President of the United States or U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
Day of Week 10th » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
Day of Week 13th » Great Vancouver Fire named A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
13th » King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
Day of Week 26th » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
Day of Week 30th » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1886
6th » Tyler Brooke, American actor and singer (d. 1943)
7th » Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (d. 1972)
18th » George Mallory, English mountaineer (d. 1924)
18th » Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (d. 1978)
24th » George Shiels, Irish-Canadian playwright (d. 1949)
25th » Henry H. Arnold, American general (d. 1950)
27th » Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (d. 1958)
29th » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1963)
29th » James Van Der Zee, American photographer (d. 1983)