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, 2009
Day of Week 1st » Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
1st » General Motors General Motors Chapter 11 reorganization called files for Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code e.g Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
Day of Week 5th » After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people 2009 Peruvian political crisis e.g are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
Day of Week 8th » Two American journalists are 2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea called found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
Day of Week 12th » A disputed Iranian presidential election, 2009 called presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging 2009 Iranian election protests named protests in Iran and around the world.
Day of Week 18th » The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
Day of Week 19th » Shishou incident or Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
19th » War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Day of Week 21st » Greenland assumes self-governance named self-rule.
Day of Week 22nd » Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.
Famous Deaths for June 2009
1st » Thomas Berry, American priest and theologian (b. 1914)