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, 1893
Day of Week 7th » Mohandas Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience.
Day of Week 20th » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1893
9th » Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
13th » Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (d. 1957)
14th » Siggie Nordstrom, American singer and actress (Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1980)
19th » Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 1940)
20th » Wilhelm Zaisser, German politician (d. 1958)
21st » Alois Hába, Czech composer and educator (d. 1973)
24th » Roy O. Disney, American businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
26th » Dorothy Fuldheim, American journalist (d. 1989)
29th » Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
29th » Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist, economist, and statistician (d. 1972)
30th » Walter Ulbricht, German politician (d. 1973)
Famous Deaths for June 1893
21st » Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (b. 1824)