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• 1935 — Transformers pitchman Alex Karras is born, and punches out a horse.
• 1935 — Campbell Lane (voice of Beast Wars Rampage) is born.
• 1935 — Víctor Mares (Latin American voice of Scourge, Sky Lynx, Deathsaurus and more) is born. Busy day, eh?
• 1960 — Enrique Mederos (Latin American Spanish voice of Nightscream) is born.
• 1962 — Martin Roach (voice of Ol' Tic Toc, Vomit Comet and more) is born.
• 1963 — The world plunges into darkness when Noriko Uemura (voice of Hostage child and one time voice of Clump) is born.
• 1965 — Rintarō Nishi (Japanese voice of Mike Franklin and Scavenger) is born.
• 1974 — Enrique Cervantes (Mexican voice of Revenge of the Fallen Bumblebee, Bruce Brazos, Predaking, Dropforge and Megatron) is born.
• 1976 — Jim Sorenson, co-author of the Ark compendiums and the AllSpark Almanacs, is born.
• 1981 — Tomasz Błasiak (Polish voice of Charlie Burns and Jack Burns) is born.
• 1983 — Gauthier de Fauconval (French voice of Scatterspike, Buzzstrike, Brother Gunter and Blurr) is born.
• 1990 — The Super-God Masterforce episode "Preservation of the Wild Animals" premieres in Malaysia.
• 1995 — The newly-created Arcee is unveiled to counter claims of sexism from human feminists. Prime's Rib!
• 1998 — The Beast Wars II episode "A Fearsome Combination Plan?" premieres in Japan.
• 2001 — Final day of BotCon 2001 in Durham, North Carolina.
• 2004 — Takara releases Super Link SC-18 Overdrive and SC-19 Wheeljack, plus the first wave of Robot Masters toys (too many to list here).
• 2007 — The Transformers novelization and its prequel Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday are published in Japan by Hayakawa Publishing Corp.
• 2008 — The Animated episode "The Elite Guard" premieres in Germany.
• 2009 — The Henkei! Henkei! Transformers manga chapter "Revenge" is serialized in Japan in Comic Bun Bun's August 2009 issue.
• 2010 — First day of the Tokyo Toy Show 2010: the event-exclusive Animated Deluxe "Prowl Elite Guard Ver." toy is made available to buy.
• 2013 — Registrations close for the Transformers 4 Chinese Actors Talent Search Reality Show.
• 2013 — The Transformers: Prime episode "Alpha/Omega" premieres in Brazil.
• 2014 — Transformers Prime — Saison 2 Vol. 1: Orion Pax and Transformers Prime — Saison 2 Vol. 2: Nemesis Prime are released to home media in France by Primal Screen.
• 2015 — Toys"R"Us Japan gives away the promotional Adventure Micron Ink to customers who purchased more than 3,000 yen worth of Adventure toys.
• 2017 — The Robots in Disguise episode "Guilty As Charged" premieres on Cartoon Network in the UK and also on Teletoon in Canada.
• 2017 — The Rescue Bots episodes "What Rises Above", "Space Bots", "The Island of Misfit Tech", "The Vigilant Town" and "Buddy System" premiere in Italy.
• 2017 — The final day of the Valvoline's The Last Knight "Valvotron" promotion: purchasing a "full synthetic oil change" would net you the figure. An Autobot-branded lunchbox could also be one with no purchase necessary.
• 2019 — HasLab's War for Cybertron Trilogy Unicron project is officially announced.
• 2020 — Secrets & Lies #1 is released by IDW Publishing. Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 96: G.I. Joe vs. Transformers, Part 2 is released by Hachette.
• 2021 — Transformers: Heavy Metal's beta is released in the Philippines.
• 2022 — Transformers Go! Go! #13 is published.
• 2023 — TakaraTomy Mall ships out Ultimate Optimus Primal, BP-01 Beast Power Bumblebee, or BP-01 Beast Power Optimus Prime, each of which come with the "Burning Cheetor" campaign item if pre-ordered.
• 2023 — Transformers Go! Go! #26 is published.
• 2024 — Studio Series 86 Optimus Prime is revealed by several different Amazon websites.
• 2024 — Transformers Go! Go! #40 is published.