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, 1897
Day of Week 16th » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
Day of Week 22nd » British Colony called British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1897
3rd » Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
7th » George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1970)
8th » John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974)
10th » Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
11th » Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian activist, founded the Hindustan Republican Association (d. 1927)
12th » Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)