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• 1919 — Orlando Drummond (Brazilian voice of Blurr, Unicron, Buzz Aldrin and many more) is born.
• 1944 — Ulf-Jürgen Wagner (German voice of Generation 2 Bumblebee, Kickback and more) is born.
• 1945 — Norio Wakamoto (voice of Galaxy Force Flame Convoy and Japanese dub of Animated Megatron) is born of Ultimate Perfection.
• 1950 — Natale Ciravolo (Italian voice of Micronus Prime) is born.
• 1952 — Michael Pan (German voice of Skids, Clampdown and Dr. Powell) is born.
• 1954 — Yūji Mitsuya (Voice director of Beast Wars Neo and Transformers: Car Robots) is born.
• 1957 — Elisabetta Cesone (Italian voice of Mega) is born.
• 1959 — Marvel letterer Jim Massara is born.
• 1961 — Rosario Zamora (Chilean voice of Blackarachnia) is born.
• 1963 — Saverio Indrio (Italian voice of Heavy Load, Bumblebee, Doubledealer and Mandroid) is born.
• 1969 — Ed Lewis (voice director for Season 4 of Cyberverse) is born....IN AMERICA!
• 1985 — The Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformer episode "Immobilizer" premieres in Japan.
• 1988 — The Super-God Masterforce episode "Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!?" premieres in Japan.
• 1989 — Riisa Naka (Japanese voice of Elena Wallace) is born.
• 1992 — The Headmasters episode "Mars Explodes! Watch Out, Fortress Maximus!" airs in Malaysia.
• 2000 — The Car Robots episode "Arise! Cybertron City" premieres in Japan.
• 2000 — Transformers: Car Robots — Vol. 3 and Vol. 4 are released on DVD in Japan by Pony Canyon.
• 2002 — The Armada episode "Palace" premieres in the US.
• 2003 — Takara releases Legend of the Microns MM-21 Emergency Micron Exdimensions, the final normal-retail release of the line.
• 2005 — The Cybertron episode "Trust" premieres in the US.
• 2006 — "Spotlight: Nightbeat" and Stormbringer #4 are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2008 — The Transformers Animated episode "Rise of the Constructicons" premieres in Latin America.
• 2011 — The Transformers: Prime episode "Operation: Breakdown" premieres in South Korea.
• 2012 — The Prime episode "Grill" premieres in Italy.
• 2013 — The Transformers: Prime episode "Prey" premieres in Brazil.
• 2013 — The Transformers: Prime episode "Project Predacon" premieres in Germany.
• 2013 — "Car Crash" is first published by Eaglemoss/GE Fabbri in Russia.
• 2017 — Optimus Prime: First Strike, ROM: First Strike, Rom vs. Transformers: Shining Armor #4, Lost Light #10, and The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 6 are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2017 — Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 7: The Harder They Die is released by Hachette Partworks.
• 2019 — The Cyberverse episode "Starscream's Children" premieres on the Cartoon Network app.
• 2022 — Japanese Mobile Game Transformers Rage Battle for the G123 platform is revealed and pre-registration begins.
• 2023 — The Transformers: Reactivate Bumblebee and Starscream two pack is accidentally revealed by Toys"R"Us.ca a month ahead of their official reveal and preorder date.
• 2024 — The Transformers Multi Shock video game is revealed by TakaraTomy.
• 2024 — Hasbro hosts a product reveal panel at NYCC officially revealing several Studio Series figures.