June Calendar

June 1, 1801: Brigham Young, second president of the Church, born in Whittingham, Vermont.

June 2: Anniversary of the Republic—Italy.

June 7, 1934: John H. Groberg, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, born in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

June 8, 1918: William Grant Bangerter, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, born in Granger, Utah.

June 11, 1917: Joseph B. Wirthlin, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, born in Salt Lake City, Utah.

June 12, 1930: Loren C. Dunn, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, born in Tooele, Utah.
1926: Carlos E. Asay, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, born in Sutherland, Utah.

June 14: Flag Day—USA

June 16, 1872: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer, born.

June 21: Usually the first day of summer and the day in the year (summer solstice) with the most hours of sunlight.

June 30, 1910: Gordon B. Hinckley, of the Council of the Twelve, born in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Our sun, 93 million miles away from the earth, is really a star. Its light takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach the earth, traveling 186,000 miles per second.

Scientists claim that the sun’s surface temperature is about 10,000ºF, 27,000,000ºF at its center.

If the sun were the size of our tallest building, the earth, for comparison, would be the size of a man and the moon about the size of a large puppy.

The sun is about 865,000 miles in diameter, 109 times the diameter of the earth.

Spinning like a top, just like the earth, is the sun. Sunlight contains all the colors of the rainbow.