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Latin Junius mensis “month of Juno”
Junius had 30 days, until Numa when it had 29 days, until Julius when it became 30 days long.
Juno is the principle goddess of the Roman Pantheon. She is the goddess of marriage and the well-being of women. She is the wife and sister of Jupiter. She is identified with the Greek goddess Hera.
June Birth Flower
Rose.
History
The celebration of birthdays is said to have first been observed in ancient Roman times. According to Birth Stones, friends and family of the birthday person would bring flowers as gifts and the giving of particular flowers for each month originated at these times. Roses were also used in Victorian times to convey messages between lovers—the colour of the flower being the indicator of the intended message
What is the Birthstone for June?
Pearl, Ruby, Emerald
June 1
2001
The heir to the Nepalese throne killed his parents and eight other family members before shooting himself, after an argument over his choice of a bride
1948
Israel and Arabs agree to a cease fire
1949
Transjordan renamed Jordan
June 2
2010
Foreign ministers of the Arab League meet in Cairo and agree to ask the UN Security Council to force Israel to end its blockade of Gaza
1964
Lal Bahadur Shastri elected premier of India
June 3
1989
Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing
1970
1st artificial gene synthesized
1098
After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey
June 4
1971
Zaheer Abbas scores Cricket 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours
1940
The synthetic rubber tire unveiled
1912
Massachusetts passes 1st U.S. minimum wage law
June 5
1993
Somali warlord Aididi murders 23 Pakistani
1984
Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh’s holiest site, Golden Temple
1873
Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar
June 6
2006
Union of Islamic Courts takes over Mogadishu, Somalia
1984
1,200 die in Sikh “Golden Temple” uprising India
1850
Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans
1844
Young Men’s Christian Association, YMCA, forms in London
June 7
1967
Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem
1958
June 8
1971
North Vietnam demands U.S. end aid to South Vietnam
1968
James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., captured
June 9
2011
In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, six women were arrested for practicing driving in an empty car lot; women are banned from driving on the road
1967
Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
June 10
1985
Coca Cola announces they’d bring back their 99-year-old formula
1977
James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King’s killer) escapes from prison
June 11
1971
US ends ban on China trade
1921
Brazil adopts women suffrage
June 12
1964
Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa
June 13
1982
Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
1977
Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
June 14
1934
Hitler and Mussolini meet in Vienna
1907
Norway restricts woman’s voting rights
June 15
1978
Jordan’s King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American
1864
US Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers
1215
King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
June 16
1990
Nelson and Winnie Mandela visit Leidseplein, Amsterdam
1815
Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia
June 17
1991
South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws
1967
1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes
1950
1st kidney transplant, Chicago
June 18
1987
Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon
1941
Turkey signs peace treaty with Nazi-Germany
June 19
1974
Yemen Arab Republic, North Yemen, suspends constitution
1862
Slavery outlawed in US territories
June 20
1990
Nelson Mandela lands in New York City to begin a tour of US
1963
US and USSR agree to set up Hot Line
1791
King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
June 21
1942
Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
1547
Great fire in Moscow
June 22
1812
Napoleon’s Grand Army invades Russia
June 23
1994
South Africa reclaims its seat in UN
1983
Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat
1860
US Secret Service created
June 24
1941
Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
1901
1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
1817
1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
June 25
1991
Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
1967
Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay, sentenced to 5 years
June 26
1994
PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
1991
ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress
1979
Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final
2008
Bill Gates resigns from Microsoft to focus on his charity work
1977
Djibouti (Afars and Issas) claims Independence from France
June 28
1967
Israel annexes East Jerusalem
1894
Labour Day established as a federal employees holiday
June 29
1981
Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed
1969
1st Jewish worship service at White House
1949
South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
June 30
1962
Rwanda and Burundi become independent
1948
Last British armies leave Israel
1894
Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
