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• 1923 — Henry Orenstein, the Hasbro employee who convinced the company to sell transforming Japanese robot toys, and who later invented the rubsign, is born.
• 1931 — Franz Rudnick (German voice actor during Generation 1) is born.
• 1932 — Ken Shiroyama (Japanese voice of Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 cartoon Bombshell, Fireflight, Perceptor, and many more) is born.
• 1950 — Tsutomu Isobe (Japanese voice of Age of Extinction Lockdown) is born.
• 1959 — Dan DiDio, former Mainframe Entertainment executive, is born.
• 1964 — Masaya Onosaka (Japanese voice of Obsidian) is born.
• 1980 — Mami Fukai (voice of Miki) is born.
• 1980 — Alex Milne is born.
• 1984 — The Transformers episode "Roll for It" premieres in the U.S.
• 1986 — The Transformers episode "Madman's Paradise" premieres in the U.S.
• 1991 — The Victory episode "The Power of Rage" premieres in Malaysia.
• 1999 — The Beast Wars Metals episode "Enter the New Warriors! Snippity Snip, Sir!" airs in Japan.
• 2001 — The 2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon episode "Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!" premieres in the U.S.
• 2004 — G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2 is released in the U.S. by Devil's Due Press.
• 2004 — Transformers: Energon #28 is released by Dreamwave Productions.
• 2005 — The Cybertron episode "Ice" premieres in the U.S.
• 2005 — Franz Rudnick passes away on his 74th birthday.
• 2008 — Transformers Animated — Volume Eins: Drachenkämpfer is released on DVD in Germany by Paramount Pictures.
• 2010 — The Transformers #12, the Transformers: Prime graphic novel, and Bots of Science are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2014 — Hub Network re-launches as Discovery Family, on which Hasbro programming only airs in the daytime.
• 2018 — The first day of the "Buzz Weekend" Bumblebee promotional event at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles CA.
• 2018 — The Cyberverse episode "Cube" airs on Cartoon Network.