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, 1905
Day of Week 15th » Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden e.g Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
Day of Week 27th » Russian battleship Potemkin named Battleship 'Potemkin' uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the battleship 'Potemkin', denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
Day of Week 30th » Albert Einstein publishes the article 'Annus Mirabilis Papers Special relativity called On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies', in which he introduces special relativity.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1905
1st » Robert Newton, English-American actor (d. 1956)
3rd » Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (d. 1946)
5th » John Abbott (actor, born 1905) e.g John Abbott, English-American actor (d. 1996)
5th » Wayne Boring, American illustrator (d. 1987)
5th » Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (d. 1935)