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• 1941 — Peter Cullen (voice of Generation 1 Optimus Prime and Ironhide, “Aligned” Optimus Prime, and Movie Optimus Prime) is born. Let the awesome voice acting begin.
• 1941 — Voice actor Peter Marinker is born.
• 1951 — Danny Mann (voice of Cloudraker, Freeway, Lightspeed and Spoilsport) is born.
• 1959 — Marvel Comic artist Ian Akin is born.
• 1964 — Mitsuaki Madono (Japanese voice of Vertebreak) is born.
• 1974 — Transformers: Prime storyboard artist Bryan Baugh is born.
• 1975 — Ana Viera (Portuguese voice of Dot Malto) is born.
• 1977 — Colorist Joe Givens is born.
• 1982 — Knights of Unicron merchandising artist Ninjaink is born.
• 1991 — The Victory episode "Battle over the Super-tanker" premieres in Malaysia.
• 1999 — The Beast Wars Neo episode "The Stolen Capsules" premieres in Japan.
• 2000 — BotCon 2000 opens in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• 2002 — The Hobby EXPO 2002 is held in Japan, the first of three events where Takara sold the Mega SCF "Megatron Metallic VER" figure.
• 2002 — Third and final day of BotCon 2002.
• 2004 — Transformers Energon #26 is released by Dreamwave Productions.
• 2005 — Takara releases Galaxy Force GC-22 Sonic Bomber and GD-13 Ramble.
• 2005 — Japanese Toys"R"Us stores offer the exclusive Mini-Con Element free with the purchase of Galaxy Force Sonic Bomber.
• 2008 — The Animated episode "Schwarzer Freitag" premieres in Germany.
• 2010 — Transformers Transformers EZ Collection wave 4 (Ravage, Bonecrusher, Scorponok, Brawl, Elite Guard Bumblebee, Gold Optimus Prime, Elite Guard Optimus Prime and Elite Guard Prowl) are released in Japan.
• 2011 — Transformers Generations 2011 Vol.2 is released in Japan by Million Publishing.
• 2011 — Final day of preorders for the Japanese Lawson-exclusive "Darkside Optimus Prime" figure.
• 2012 — The Rescue Bots episode "The Haunting of Griffin Rock" premieres on The Hub.
• 2012 — The Prime episode "Uno se alzará, primera parte" airs in Spain.
• 2012 — The Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Prime episode "Strategy Transformation! Unravel the Sinister Thread!" premieres
• 2012 — TakaraTomy releases Prime Megatron Darkness and Jet Vehicon, AMW Arms Microns Gabu, Baru, Dai, C.L. GR, Baro G and Jida R, and EZ Collection figures Energon Drill with Knock Out and Ultra Magnus.
• 2012 — Numerous Japanese stores take part in a big Arms Micron campaign; Hellflame Guru, Hellflame Jida, Hellflame Noji, Hellflame Zamu and Shining B.B. are given away free with various qualifying purchases.
• 2015 — Shawn Robinson (stuntman in the Live-action film series) passes away.
• 2017 — Byeong-gwan Kim (Korean voice of Gigatron, Dolrailer, Build Typhoon and Wars) dies at age 74.
• 2018 — TakaraTomy releases Masterpiece MP-41 Dinobot (Beast Wars), Power of the Primes PP-16 Moonracer, PP-17 Dreadwind, PP-18 Blackwing and PP-19 Starscream and Studio Series SS-09 Autobot Jazz, SS-10 Lockdown, SS-11 Megatron, and SS-12 Decepticon Brawl.
• 2021 — Beast Wars #6 is released by IDW Publishing.
• 2021 — Transformers Go! Go! Great Adventure on the Planet of Games! is first published.
• 2023 — The last eight episodes of Transformers: EarthSpark's first season are released to Paramount+.