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, 1923
Day of Week 18th » Checker Taxi puts its first taxicab named taxi on the streets.
Day of Week 25th » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a Airco DH-4 or DH-4B biplane
Famous Birthdays on June in 1923
1st » Barry Till, English priest, author, and academic (d. 2013)
2nd » Lloyd Shapley, Amrican mathematician, Nobel Prize in Economics called Nobel Prize laureate
3rd » Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician and author
4th » Elizabeth Jolley, English-Australian author (d. 2007)
5th » Jorge Daponte, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1963)
5th » Roger Lebel, Canadian actor (d. 1994)
5th » Daniel Pinkham, American organist and composer (d. 2006)