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, 1888
Day of Week 3rd » The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the 'San Francisco Examiner'.
Day of Week 5th » The 1888 Río de la Plata earthquake named Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
Day of Week 15th » Crown Prince William II, German Emperor Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors William I, German Emperor Wilhelm I and Frederick III, German Emperor Frederick III, 1888 is
Famous Birthdays on June in 1888
3rd » Tom Brown (trombonist) named Tom Brown, American trombonist (d. 1958)
7th » Clarence DeMar, American long-distance runner (d. 1958)
11th » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-American criminal (d. 1927)
12th » Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
13th » Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (d. 1935)
15th » Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (d. 1921)
16th » Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)