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, 1975
Day of Week 4th » The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
Day of Week 5th » The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
5th » The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum, 1975 e.g referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
Day of Week 7th » 1975 Cricket World Cup called The inaugural Cricket World Cup began in England.
25th » Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has a state of The Emergency (India) named internal Emergency declared in India.
Day of Week 26th » Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
Day of Week 29th » Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1975
1st » Michal Grošek, Czech-Swiss ice hockey player and coach