10 Random Facts About All Things June

June is here. It is always nice when the daylight hours are longer. You can breathe the fresh air without freezing a lung. Ok winters haven't been that bad recently but.... way way back when I was a kid and had to walk five miles up hill both to and from school no matter what the weather was like....it was cold and dark for what seemed like an eternity. Until you got to the best month of the school year. JUNE.

School would be getting out soon, the sun starts to stick around for more than a brief appearance and you can finally put away the Michelin Man Parka for two or three months. You dream of plans for the glorious days of summer. Birds are tweeting along with us so to celebrate June and the sunshine it brings

Here are 10 random imperfectly awesome facts about June:

1. George Bush Sr. and Donald Trump are the only two US Presidents who were born in June.

Sir Robert Laird Borden, Arthur Meighen, Joe Clark and John Napier Turner were the four Canadian Prime Ministers born in June.

Am I the only Canadian that has no recollection of the name Arthur Meighen before? But I stumble over and forget names of folks I see every single day so...

(He was Prime Minister from 10 July 1920 to 29 December 1921; and from 29 June 1926 to 25 September 1926.)

2. June Cleaver, mom on Leave It To Beaver, wore Pearls and Heels for better filming, not because her character was submissive

Actress Barbara Billingsley stated in a 2003 interview that "The pearls happened because I have a big hollow here in my neck," she explains, pointing to the spot that was hidden with a shadow created by wearing pearls. "In those days, cameras and the film weren't as good as they are today, so I used to wear different kinds of jewelry around my neck to hide that spot. It was easier to be filmed and photographed if something made a shadow there," she says, adding that eventually, costumers found that a pearl necklace covered the spot perfectly.

"So no matter what I was doing -- cleaning, cooking or answering the phone -- I had those darn pearls on. And high heels. In the beginning of the series I wore flat shoes, but then Wally and the Beaver began to get taller. That's why they put me in heels. The producers wanted me to be as tall or taller than the kids," she recalls, adding she's 5 feet 5 inches and, even with heels on, "sometimes I would stand on the stairs for a scene so I could have some more height."

3. June Carter Cash was born on June 23, 1929 and was known as the funny one in her family. She was also a talented one being listed as #31 by CMT on their 40 Greatest Women in Country Music list. She acted in an episode of Gunsmoke and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. She also won 5 Grammys. June never considered herself talented.

4. June Jones, the head coach of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons from 1994-1996 and the University of Hawaii's head coach from 1999-2007 & signed on to coach SMU in 2008, was not born in June. His birthday is February 19th 1953. He was named after his father.

5. June 26th 1997 (yes 20 years ago) JK Rowling's first Harry Potter book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" released in the United Kingdom.

6. Some important days in June include D-Day and Flag Day in the UK, Denmark, Argentina, and Romania. Mother’s Day falls on the second Sunday in June in Luxembourg only, but Father’s day falls in June in Belgium, the US, the UK, Mexico, Canada, and several other countries.

7. We all know that Father's Day is celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of June. But did you know there are contradictory stories on how Father's Day started?

In one account Sonora Smart Dodd wanted fathers to be celebrated after listening to a Mother's Day sermon in church in 1909. Her dad cared for five children after his wife died in childbirth.

The other story states Grace Golden Clayton came up with the idea in Fairmont, WV in 1908 after their was an explosion in a local mine that killed more than 350 men.

It did not become an officially recognized holiday in the US until 1972...

That was the year I was born....an award had to be created for anyone tough enough to father me.

8. Ramjit Raghav became the world's oldest first-time dad by fathering his first child at the age of 94 in 2010. He has two children now though his first son went missing six months ago (and no not because Ramjit forgot where he put him- Ramjit's wife said she fell asleep at the bus stop and when she woke up her son was gone). Ramjit's wife left him last week taking their second son with her. He is spending this June missing his family,

9. The fourth highest number of greeting cards are sold in June each year. In the United States last year, Hallmark sold 141 million cards for Mother’s Day but only 93 million for Father’s Day. That’s a gap roughly the weight of six blue whales. Christmas and Valentines Day were number 1 and 2 in greeting card sales.

10. June Rowlands was the first female Mayor of Toronto Canada. (serving from 1991-1994). The Barenaked Ladies were banned from Toronto City Hall at one time because Toronto Mayor June Rowlands found their name ‘offensive’. The band, Barenaked Ladies, originated from just outside of Toronto and eight years later turned down the key to the city