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, 1942
Day of Week 3rd » World War II: Empire of Japan e.g Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by Battle of Dutch Harbor e.g bombing Unalaska Island.
Day of Week 4th » World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
Day of Week 5th » World War II: The United States declares war on Kingdom of Bulgaria Bulgaria, Kingdom of Hungary Hungary, and Kingdom of Romania Romania.
Day of Week 6th » World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
Day of Week 7th » World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
7th » World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Empire of Japan or Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu Island named Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
Day of Week 8th » World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines Japanese submarine I-21 e.g I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle, New South Wales called Newcastle.
Day of Week 10th » World War II: Nazism called Nazis burn the Czech Republic or Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
Day of Week 11th » World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
Day of Week 12th » Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
Day of Week 20th » The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Day of Week 21st » World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
21st » World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens (Oregon) or Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of Attacks on North America during World War II known as attacks by Japan against the
Day of Week 22nd » Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal (Germany) called Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
Day of Week 23rd » World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
18th » Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
18th » Pat Hutchins, English author and illustrator
18th » Thabo Mbeki, South African politician, 23rd President of South Africa
18th » Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Quarrymen, the Beatles, Wings (band) named Wings and The Fireman (music) named the Fireman)
18th » Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos) (d. 1980)
18th » Nick Tate, Australian actor
18th » Hans Vonk (conductor) known as Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
19th » Jos Brink, Dutch actor and producer (d. 2007)
19th » Neil Chalmers, English zoologist and academic
19th » Merata Mita, New Zealand director and producer (d. 2010)
19th » Jeff Moss, American screenwriter and composer (d. 1998)
20th » Andrew Graham (academic) or Andrew Graham, English economist and academic
20th » Richard I. Neal, American general
20th » Neil Trudinger, Australian mathematician and theorist
20th » Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Beach Boys)
21st » Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe, English businessman and politician
21st » Dan Henning, American football player and coach
21st » Marjorie Margolies, American journalist and politician
21st » Henry S. Taylor, American author and poet
21st » Togo D. West, Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
22nd » Murphy Dunne, American actor and keyboard player (The Blues Brothers)
23rd » Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, English cosmologist and astrophysicist
24th » Arthur Brown (musician) or Arthur Brown, English singer (Kingdom Come (British band) named Kingdom Come and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
24th » Michele Lee, American actress, singer, and dancer
24th » Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean engineer and politician, 32nd President of Chile