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, 1889
Day of Week 3rd » The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
3rd » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running convert 14 mi km between a generator at Willamette River Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
Day of Week 6th » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
Day of Week 12th » Eighty are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
Day of Week 26th » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
Day of Week 29th » Hyde Park Township, Cook County, Illinois e.g Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1889
1st » James Daugherty, American author, illustrator, and painter (d. 1974)
1st » Charles Kay Ogden, English linguist and philosopher (d. 1957)
10th » Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor and producer (d. 1973)
11th » Hugo Wieslander, Swedish decathlete (d. 1976)
20th » John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (d. 1951)