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• Every year — New Year's Day!
• 1898 — While exploring a cave system beneath the Sierra Nevada, Walter Simmons, and Joseph Wells are attacked by a race of inhuman monsters. After dispatching the creatures, the men are approached by agent Billy North of the United States Secret Service. Original
• 1951 — Luca Dal Fabbro (Italian voice of Wheelie) is born.
• 1953 — Musician Hank Williams passes away.
• 1956 — Actor Pierre Laurent (French voice of Rattrap and Waspinator in Beast Wars) is born.
• 1958 — Jordi Royo (Castillian Spanish voice of Soundwave and Harold Attinger) is born.
• 1959 — Actor Éric Peter (European French voice of Galvatron in Age of Extinction) is born.
• 1965 — Actor Gabriel Gama (Latin-American Spanish voice of Prowl in the 2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon) is born.
• 1966 — Actor Veeti Kallio (Finnish voice of Crosswise, Leobreaker and Menasor in Transformers: Cybertron) is born.
• 1968 — Film producer Tom DeSanto is born.
• 1973 — Comic publisher Condor Verlag is founded.
• 1978 — Simona Biasetti (Italian voice of Filch) is born.
• 1999 — Diamond White (voice of Frankie Greene) is born.
• 2000 — The second Beast Wars: Metals OP/ED single "Sennen no Soldier"/"HALLELUYAH" is released in Japan by Columbia Music Entertainment.
• 2003 — The 2001 Robots in Disguise Dreadwind & Smokejumper set is released in Japan as a Toys"R"Us-exclusive "USA Edition".
• 2003 — Ito Yokaido stores in Japan give out individually-packed members of the "Undergrove" Destruction Mini-Con Team (Crush, Duster, and Wheel), one free with the purchase of any Legends of the Microns product through January (or until they ran out).
• 2004 — Transformers: City of Fear is published in the U.S. by Titan Books.
• 2004 — The novel Transformers: Fusion is published in the U.S. by ibooks.
• 2004 — Toys"R"Us Japan stores offer the "Aqua Marine Energy Axe" as a promotional gift with the purchase of 2000 yen of Super Link product. Multiple other chains offer the "Royal Clear Energy Spear" with Grand Convoy Super Mode.
• 2005 — The Beast Wars Returns episode "The Beast's Gratitude" premieres in Japan.
• 2007 — The Action Blast! programming block on G4 comes to an end.
• 2008 — The freelance peacekeeping agent Death's Head tracks down Cyclonus and Scourge above the planet of Junk, which leads to all three of them falling under the thrall of Unicron. The Legacy of Unicron!
• 2009 — The Autobots discover that a time rift has destroyed the planet Quintesson and is now threatening to consume both Earth and Cybertron. Meanwhile, Soundwave and the Terrorcons prepare to strip Earth's resources using an energy leech. When their plans are thwarted, they follow the Autobots back in time to 1989. Time Wars
• 2010 — Director John Freeman dies in Burbank, California.
• 2011 — Japanese Toys"R"Us stores offer the exclusive United Recoil Targetmaster Micron with the purchase of 3000 yens' worth of United product.
• 2018 — Actor Milt Jamin (Voice of Blast Off, Grax, Stylor and Aimless in the original cartoon) passes away.
• 2020 — Transformers #15 and The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 10 are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2023 — Transformers Go! Go! #19 is published.