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• 1938 — Michael Bell (voice of the original The Transformers cartoon Prowl, Sideswipe, Swoop and others) is born.
• 1950 — Actor Frank Stallone (voice of Thunderhoof) is born.
• 1950 — Peter Reinhardt (German voice of Sentinel Prime, Dropforge, Flamesnort, Megatron and Megatron X) is born.
• 1957 — Kenyū Horiuchi (Japanese voice of Sunstreaker, Sludge, Springer and many others) is born.
• 1961 — Laurence Fishburne (voice of Alpha Trion in Transformers One) is born.
• 1963 — Marty Isenberg (story editor for Beast Machines and Transformers Animated) is born.
• 1965 — Frédéric Popovic (French voice of Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Blurr and several other characters in Transformers Animated) is born.
• 1967 — Dafnis Fernández (Latin-American Spanish voice of Ironhide, Ultra Magnus, Underbite and Rise of the Beasts Unicron) is born.
• 1967 — Christian Weygand (German voice of Bumblebee, Ratchet and others in Generation 2) is born.
• 1971 — Japanese comedian and voice actor Masanori Hasegawa is born.
• 1984 — Ryōhei Kimura (Japanese voice of Bumblebee in Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns, Adventure, Bumblebee, Cyberverse, War for Cybertron Trilogy, EarthSpark and Transformers One) is born.
• 1997 — Artist Umi Miyao is born.
• 2000 — Last day of BotCon 2000 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• 2001 — Beast Wars: Transformers—The Beginning: Vol. 2 is released in the UK on VHS by Universal.
• 2003 — War and Peace #4, More than Meets the Eye #4 and The War Within TPB are released in the US by Dreamwave Productions.
• 2003 — Micron Legend—Volume 4 is released on DVD in Japan by Columbia Music Entertainment, coming with the "Linkage Part 4" mini-comic and exclusive Tailslide toy.
• 2004 — Energon Sharkticon is released in Japan as a Toy's Dream Project-exclusive "USA Edition". JUSCO stores begin the "Wing Convoy Original Figure" promotion.
• 2004 — The Super Link episode "Hellfire! Jungle Planet" premieres in Japan.
• 2005 — The Galaxy Force episode "King of Treachery - Evil Completely Unleashed" premieres in Japan.
• 2005 — The Cybertron episode "Speed" premieres in the U.S.
• 2008 — The Animated episode "Die Weltraumbrücke, Teil 1" premieres in Germany.
• 2010 — The first Hasbro-sanctioned Transformers convention in Asia, Cybertron Con 2010 in Shanghai, China, begins its first day.
• 2011 — Japanese McDonald's stores offer a DVD with their Transformers toy promotion, which includes codes for unique food-based MechTech weapons in the online MechTech card game.
• 2011 — Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen makes its Japanese television broadcast debut on Fuji TV.
• 2012 — TakaraTomy releases the EZ Collection Gum candy toys Convoy, Hot Rodimus, Prowl, Megatron and Starscream.
• 2014 — Robots in Disguise #31 and the Infestation Omnibus are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2015 — International Friendship Day, and in its honor, Hasbro announces Optimus Prime and Bumblebee My Little Ponies.
• 2016 — The Rescue Bots episode "King Burns" premieres on Discovery Family.
• 2016 — Second day of Cybertron Con 2016 at the Shanghaimart Expo in Shanghai, China.
• 2018 — Guillermo Romano (Latin American Spanish voice of Unicron) dies at age 86.
• 2020 — The first chapter of Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (Siege) airs on Netflix.
• 2021 — Mário Monjardim (voice actor and dubbing director on the Brazilian Portuguese dub of Generation One) dies at age 86.
• 2022 — TakaraTomy releases Kingdom KD-21 Autobot Blaster & Eject, Legacy TL-01 Skids, TL-02 Dragstrip and TL-03 Autobot Bulkhead and Premium Finish PFSS-05 Optimus Prime, plus Kingdom KD EX-17 Autobot Hot Rod is released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive.
• 2023 — The Beast Wars Again episode "The Hellish Ant Warrior, Inferno (Part 2)" airs on TV Tokyo.
• 2024 — Preorders go up for all the Transformers figures officially revealed at this years SDCC.