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, 1892
Day of Week 7th » Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
7th » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, 'Plessy v. Ferguson'.
Day of Week 30th » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1892
5th » Jaan Kikkas, Estonian weightlifter (d. 1944)
6th » Donald F. Duncan, Sr., American toy maker and businessman, founded the Duncan Toys Company (d. 1971)
7th » Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)