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, 1972
Day of Week 8th » Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
Day of Week 9th » Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating 1972 Black Hills flood or a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
Day of Week 12th » The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana.
Day of Week 15th » Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
Day of Week 16th » The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
Day of Week 17th » Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican Party (United States) e.g Republican party to illegally Telephone tapping or wiretap
Day of Week 18th » British European Airways Flight 548 Staines air disaster: 118 are killed when a British European Airways BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident H.S. Trident crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
Day of Week 20th » Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the Watergate tapes named tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while Watergate burglaries named breaking in
Day of Week 23rd » Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexism e.g sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal government of the United States known as federal funds.
Day of Week 29th » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case 'Furman v. Georgia' that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution or Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constituti
Day of Week 30th » The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.