Unix Timestamp: 1338854400
Tuesday, June 5. 2012, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island Tortoise subspecies, dies at a Galapagos National Park, thus making the subspecies extinct.ref name=Lonesome George's Death

Shenzhou 9, a Chinese spacecraft carrying three Chinese astronauts, including the first-ever female one, docked manually with an orbiting moduleTiangong 1, first time as the country, making them as the third country, after the United States and Russia, to successfully perform the mission.

6 ndash The century\'s second and last solar transit of Venus occurs. The next pair are predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.

Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of shooting dead five of its soldiers on the border of those two countries, a day after three Armenians were killed. //www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18328690 (BBC)

Amidst growing diplomatic tensions between Romania and Hungary, ignoring an official request not to, the Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament undergoes a visit in Transylvania triggering protests from Romanian state dignitaries. //www.politics.hu/20120605/kover-ignores-romanian-plea-to-postpone-visit-to-transylvania/ (Politics.hu)

6 ndash The century's second and last solar transit of Venus occurs. The next pair are predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.