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, 1899
Day of Week 7th » American Temperance movement in the United States or Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalism named vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
Day of Week 12th » New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
Day of Week 27th » A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1899
1st » Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician and academic (d. 1963)
2nd » Lotte Reiniger, German animator and director (d. 1981)
2nd » Edwin Way Teale, American environmentalist and photographer (d. 1980)
3rd » Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
5th » Otis Barton, American diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere (d. 1992)