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, 1991
Day of Week 3rd » Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
Day of Week 7th » Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column convert 7 km mi high.
Day of Week 12th » Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
12th » 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil people named Tamil civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
Day of Week 15th » In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die.
Day of Week 17th » Apartheid: The Parliament of South Africa known as South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
Day of Week 20th » The German Bundestag votes to move the capital (political) called capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
Day of Week 25th » Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or Yugoslavia.
Day of Week 27th » Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia named Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.