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, 1963
Day of Week 1st » Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
Day of Week 3rd » The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Hue chemical attacks e.g attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin
Day of Week 5th » The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair".
5th » Movement of 15 Khordad: Protests against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
Day of Week 10th » Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program
Day of Week 11th » African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama List of Governors of Alabama Governor George Wallace Stand in the Schoolhouse Door stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt
11th » Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức Self-immolation or burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
11th » John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionize American society. Proposing equal access to public facilities, end segregation in education and guarantee federal protection for votin
Day of Week 12th » African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) e.g Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
Day of Week 16th » Soviet Space Program: 'Vostok 6' Mission Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
Day of Week 17th » A day after Leaders of South Vietnam called South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
Day of Week 20th » The so-called "Moscow-Washington hotline called red telephone" link is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Day of Week 21st » Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is Papal conclave, 1963 known as elected as Pope Paul VI.
Day of Week 24th » The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
Day of Week 26th » U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet Union called Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
26th » Levi Eshkol becomes the Israeli Prime Minister.
Day of Week 30th » Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco "Ciaschiteddu" Salvatore Greco, kills seven Polizia di Stato police officers and Italian Army military personnel near Palermo.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1963
1st » Mike Joyce (musician) called Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths and Buzzcocks)