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, 1900
Day of Week 5th » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
Day of Week 9th » Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in a British prison under mysterious circumstances.
Day of Week 14th » Territory of Hawaii called Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
14th » The Reichstag (German Empire) called Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
Day of Week 17th » Boxer Rebellion: Eight-Nation Alliance or Allied Western and Japanese forces Battle of Dagu Forts (1900) e.g capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
Day of Week 18th » Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
Day of Week 20th » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a Siege of the International Legations called 55-day siege of the Beijing Legation Quarter or Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
20th » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian polar expedition of 1900–02 known as Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship 'Zarya (polar ship) named Zarya', never to return.
Day of Week 21st » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Day of Week 25th » The Taoism or Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1900
3rd » Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
5th » Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
6th » Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist (d. 1957)
6th » Lester Matthews, English actor (d. 1975)
7th » Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra) (d. 1963)
15th » Gotthard Günther, German philosopher and academic (d. 1984)
15th » Otto Luening, German-American composer and conductor (d. 1996)
17th » Martin Bormann, German politician (d. 1945)