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, 1902
Day of Week 24th » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
Day of Week 28th » The United States Congress named U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1902
5th » Arthur Powell Davies, American minister, author, and activist (d. 1957)
6th » Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1947)
7th » Georges Van Parys, French composer (d. 1971)
7th » Herman B Wells, American academic (d. 2000)
9th » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1969)
12th » Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician, List of mayors of Ghent or Mayor of Ghent (d. 1973)
15th » Erik Erikson, German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
16th » Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
16th » George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist and author (d. 1984)