1978
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The year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by six years.
- For further information, see: Transformers timeline
Fiction
[edit]G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers
[edit]Joseph Colton led a small team into the Himalayas, only to come under attack by Bludgeon and Cobra-La. Atomic Man was killed, and Colton taken prisoner. Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2
Knights of Unicron
[edit]Bumblebee establishes Bumblebee and the Hive, topping the charts the same year with "Cybertronian Rhapsody". Behind the Music pack-in booklet
Non-Fiction
[edit]Events
[edit]- January 28 — Jollibee is founded.
- December 13 — Studio Gallop is founded.
- Griffin Bacal is founded by Tom Griffin and Joe Bacal.
- Wang Film Productions is founded in Taiwan.
- Tiger Electronics is founded.
Births
[edit]January
[edit]- January 1 — Simona Biasetti
- January 2 — Megumi Toyoguchi
- January 5 — America Olivo
- January 8 — Scott Whyte
- January 9 — Krzysztof Szczerbinski
- January 20 — Omar Sy
- January 24 — Mark Hildreth, Kristen Schaal
February
[edit]- February 12 — Nicolai Tegeler
- February 14 — Yukiko Tagami
- February 20 — Stefan Bräuler
- February 26 — Tom Beck
March
[edit]April
[edit]- April 2 — Ana Lobo
- April 3 — Alessandro Juliani
- April 6 — Erica Edwards
- April 8 — Klaudiusz Kaufmann
- April 15 — Takashi Watanabe
- April 19 — Gō Inoue
- April 20 — Rodrigo Saavedra
- April 26 — Fred Mascarenhas
- April 29 — Jonathan Sela
May
[edit]- May 4 — Daisuke Ono
- May 5 — Santiago Cabrera
- May 13 — Junji Majima
- May 23 — Jesse Heiman
- May 30 — Kenji Itoso
June
[edit]- June 5 — Takayuki Kondō
- June 6 — Nadia Nascimento
- June 7 — Feng Junhua
- June 14 — Anna Wodzyńska
- June 16 — Rie Kanda
July
[edit]- July 3 — Benjamin Pascal
- July 5 — Melanie Henríquez
- July 7 — André Gaiani
- July 10 — Yannick Lassère
- July 19 — Chiara Zanni
- July 23 — Fuminori Komatsu
- July 24 — Gabe Eltaeb
- July 25 — Jo Hyeon-jeong
- July 26 — Gonzalo Fumero
August
[edit]- August 8 — Natsuko Kuwatani
- August 9 — Marie Zidi
- August 15 — David Nakayama
- August 19 — Satoshi Tsuruoka
- August 20 — Anneli Heed
October
[edit]- October 1 — Bayu Oktara
- October 4 — Jesus Aburtov
- October 7 — Omar Benson Miller
- October 9 — Sim Seung-han
- October 28 — Gustavo Martinez
November
[edit]- November 1 — Francesco De Francesco
- November 2 — Akira Tomisaka
- November 3 — Risa Mizuno
- November 5 — Park Seong-tae
- November 6 — Nicole Dubuc
- November 11 — Irwin Daayán
- November 15 — Ben Pronsky
- November 24 — Sun Ye
- November 26 — Jun Fukuyama
- November 27 — Zhang Jie
- November 28 — Leonardo Salas
- November 29 — Heiko Akrap
- November 30 — Robert Kirkman