5th June in history

Born on this day in 1971, Mark Wahlberg is an American actor, producer, restaurateur, and former rapper. He became the protagonist in two films in the Transformers live-action film franchise, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Transformers: The Last Knight.

Did you know that:

• Thomas Chippendale, an English furniture maker was born on this day in 1718
• Johan Gadolin, a Finnish chemist who discovered yttrium was on this day in 1760
• “If You Had Wings” opened at Walt Disney World on this day in 1972
• The safety cap for a medicine bottle was patented by Ronald Kay on this day in 1984

// Compiled by Zoya Siddiqui