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, 1914
Day of Week 23rd » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
Day of Week 28th » Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg e.g Sophie are Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand named assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the 'casus belli' of World War I.
Day of Week 29th » Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1914
3rd » Ignacio Ponseti, Spanish physician (d. 2009)