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• 1940 — Lance Henriksen (voice of Animated Lockdown) is born.
• 1947 — Sanryō Odaka (voice of Apache) is born.
• 1950 — British comic artist David Lloyd is born.
• 1957 — Sergio Romanò (Italian voice of Beast Wars Ravage and two Grimlocks) is born.
• 1960 — Lee Seon-ho (Korean voice of Carlos Lopez) is born.
• 1964 — Minami Takayama (voice of Ryōma Sakamoto) is born.
• 1965 — Kiyoyuki Yanada (Japanese voice of Beast Wars Depth Charge and Legends of the Microns Megatron) is born.
• 1967 — Takehito Koyasu (Japanese voice of Optimus Primal, Speed King, Adventure Ratchet and Optimus Prime) is born.
• 1972 — Laurent Maurel (European French voice of King Arthur in The Last Knight and French voice of Mirage in the War for Cybertron Trilogy) is born.
• 1977 — Actor Frederic Doss is born.
• 1978 — Actor Santiago Cabrera (Santos in The Last Knight) is born.
• 1985 — Shōko Nakagawa (Japanese voice of Tessa Yeager) is born.
• 1986 — Felix Isenbügel (German voice of Clout and Whirl) is born.
• 1989 — The Transformers episode "The Rebirth, Part 2" premiers in Germany.
• 1991 — The Victory episode "The Birth of a Monster" premieres in Malaysia.
• 1991 — Japanese voice actor Takaaki Torashima is born.
• 1999 — The Beast Wars episode "Other Victories" premieres in the US.
• 1999 — The Beast Wars Neo episode "Ship's Log" premieres in Japan.
• 2004 — Dreamwave releases the third issue of the Armada More than Meets the Eye profile collection.
• 2004 — The first printing of Transformers: The Ultimate Guide is published in the US by DK Publishing.
• 2007 — Free Comic Book Day: A free preview comic of the Official Movie Prequel is released by IDW Publishing.
• 2009 — "Fight for Energon" is released on Hasbro's MonkeybarTV streaming video site.
• 2009 — Transformers Animated — Volume Two: Lost and Found is released in Australia by Paramount.
• 2010 — Hasbro announces the third nominee in the Transformers Hall of Fame for 2010: Jazz.
• 2010 — Nefarious #3 and the Transformers Movie Collection Volume 2 are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2012 — Free Comic Book Day featuring Simon Furman's Regeneration One #80.5.
• 2012 — The Transformers: Prime episode "Tunnel Vision" and Transformers: Rescue Bots episode "Deep Trouble" premiere on The Hub.
• 2013 — Final day of voting in the first of two online polls in Hasbro's "Fan-Built Bot" program, which would ultimately produce Windblade.
• 2013 — The Transformers: Rescue Bots episode "Rules and Regulations" premieres in Brazil.
• 2015 — The Robots in Disguise books Bumblebee Versus Scuzzard and Sideswipe Versus Thunderhoof hit bookstores.
• 2016 — The Robots in Disguise episode "Cover Me" premieres in Hungary.
• 2018 — Free Comic Book Day: Unicron #0 is released by IDW Publishing.
• 2022 — Hasbro Publishes Its Transformers Franchise Statements Via 2021 Annual Report and the 2022 Proxy Statement for the general public to read.
• 2023 — Pauline Newstone (voice of Airazor in Beast Wars) passes away at age 79.
• 2024 — The Transformers: EarthSpark episode "Teach Me Megatron" premieres in Japan.
• 2026 — Yolopark officially reveals the AMK Mini Decepticon Avatar Megatron