1979
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The year 1979 (MCMLXXIX) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by five years.
- For further information, see: Transformers timeline
Fiction
[edit]Movie continuity
[edit]IDW live-action film series comics
[edit]March
[edit]- March 28 - Sector Seven (or its affiliates) attempt to extract a sample of AllSpark's sub-atomic matter, resulting in a meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Movie Prequel #4 Transformers: Beginnings
When discussing this incident with fellow Sector Seven agents, Simmons referred to the parties responsible as "someone" rather than "we," so it may not have been a S7 operation.
Knights of Unicron
[edit]Bumblebee tears up his audio box while performing live, forcing Bumblebee and the Hive to retrench as the Knights of Unicron, with new lead singer Optimus Prime. Behind the Music pack-in booklet
Non-Fiction
[edit]Events
[edit]March
[edit]- March 29 — America's most serious nuclear power plant accident, at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania.
April
[edit]- April 1 — Nickelodeon launches its first broadcast on television.
October
[edit]- October 1 — Activision, Inc. is founded.
Births
[edit]???? — Paul Matzke
January
[edit]- January 10 — Vlad Chiriac
- January 11 — Ricardo Bautista
- January 13 — Leonhard Mahlich
- January 16 — Frida Nilsson
- January 17 — Paolo De Santis
- January 25 — Oscar Fernando Gómez
February
[edit]- February 8 — Josh Keaton
- February 11 — Raquel Marinho
- February 13 — Cissy Jones
- February 15 — Keiji Hirai, Lis Kurniasih
- February 21 — Tobias Müller
- February 23 — Maryke Hendrikse
- February 25 — Alessia La Monica
- February 27 — Martin Kautz
March
[edit]- March 3 — Jon Bailey
- March 4 — Gabriel Ortiz
- March 10 — Danny Pudi
- March 14 — Marcelo Matere, Wang Kai
- March 17 — Samoa Joe
- March 18 — Jareb Dauplaise, Rajesh Kava
- March 31 — Jan Aleksandrowicz
April
[edit]- April 3 — David Willis
- April 8 — B. Adam Baillio
- April 16 — Dirk Stollberg
- April 18 — Nando Sierpe
- April 21 — Xóchitl Ugarte
- April 23 — Jaime King
- April 26 — Jessica Toledo
May
[edit]- May 14 — Fico Ossio
- May 22 — Luiz Sérgio Vieira
- May 23 — Josh Cooley, Francesco Mattina
- May 24 — Tobias Nath
June
[edit]- June 14 — David Allende
- June 18 — Yumiko Kobayashi, Marco Aurélio Campos
- June 19 —Yeong-wung Jeong
- June 20 — Sarah Stiles
- June 29 — Stephanie Lemelin
July
[edit]- July 7 — Robert Atkins
- July 8 — David Baron
- July 10 — Marieke Oeffinger
- July 13 — Alexis Tomassian
- July 17 — Robert Deas
- July 22 — Parvesh Cheena, Regina Maria Maia
- July 23 — Marc Weiss, Dimas Seto
August
[edit]- August 1 — Sascha Oliver Bauer, Alexander Ziegenbein
- August 12 — Anita Sajnóg
- August 13 — Jhonny Torres
- August 23 — Andrew Sorohan
September
[edit]October
[edit]- October 4 — Ezequiel Serrano
- October 7 — Shawn Ashmore
- October 9 — Chama
- October 12 — Katherine Sigismund
- October 13 — Stefan Günther
- October 19 — Ricardo Méndez
- October 25 — Kris Carter, Csaba Tokaji
- October 29 — Emil Cabaltierra
- October 31 — Andy Barnett