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, 1941
Day of Week 1st » World War II: the Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1st » The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
Day of Week 2nd » World War II: German Fallschirmjäger (Nazi Germany) paratoopers murder Greece Greek civilians in the village of Massacre of Kondomari Kondomari.
Day of Week 3rd » World War II: The Wehrmacht Razing of Kandanos known as razes the Greece named Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
Day of Week 5th » World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxia known as asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
Day of Week 8th » World War II: Allies of World War II known as Allies Syria-Lebanon Campaign known as invade Syria and Lebanon.
Day of Week 14th » June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
Day of Week 22nd » Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
22nd » The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
Day of Week 23rd » The Lithuanian Activist Front declares June Uprising in Lithuania e.g independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany known as Nazis will occupy Lit
Day of Week 26th » World War II: Soviet planes Košice attack known as bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
Day of Week 27th » Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch Iaşi pogrom named one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
27th » German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.