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• ???? — Takaki Ōtomari (Japanese voice of Soundwave in Bumblebee) is born.
• 1941 — Director Akira Hamada is born.
• 1947 — Jean Barney (French voice of Tigatron in Beast Wars) is born.
• 1948 — Gileno Santoro (Brazilian voice of Yoketron and the small Colossus Rhodes) is born.
• 1952 — The Japanese channel NTV (broadcaster of the Japanese Generation One era shows) is founded.
• 1958 — Ruth Toscano (Mexican voice of Botanica and Scatterspike) is born.
• 1964 — Fabio Boccanera (Italian voice of Energon Shockblast) is born.
• 1965 — Composer Katsuhiro Hayashi is born.
• 1967 — Alexandre Moreno (Brazilian voice of Rattrap, Hot Shot and William Lennox) is born.
• 1974 — Brent Miller (voice of Armada and Energon Hot Shot) is born.
• 1981 — Stefano Sperduti (Italian voice of Clogstopper) is born.
• 1985 — The Transformers episode "The God Gambit" premieres in the US.
• 1987 — Rob Gavagan (voice of Prime Wars Trilogy Devastator) is born.
• 1990 — The Super-God Masterforce episode "A New Friend, Sixshot" premieres in Malaysia.
• 1998 — The Beast Wars II episode "The End of Starscream" premieres in Japan.
• 2000 — The Beast Machines episode "Spark of Darkness" premieres on Fox Kids in the U.S.
• 2004 — Energon Slugslinger is released in Japan as a Toys"R"Us-exclusive "USA Edition" (under the name "Storm Jet").
• 2008 — Transformers Animated: The Game is released in Europe.
• 2009 — All Hail Megatron Volume 3 trade paperbacks is released by IDW Publishing.
• 2014 — Eberhard Prüter (German voice of Jetstorm and Que) passes away.
• 2014 — CBS All Access is launched in the US.
• 2015 — The Transformers: Redemption is released by IDW Publishing.
• 2017 — The Robots in Disguise episode "Five Fugitives" premieres on Cartoon Network.
• 2017 — TakaraTomy releases Legends LG-47 Kickback & Clouder, LG-48 Gong & Repug, and LG-49 Targetmaster Triggerhappy (with Blowpipe).
• 2018 — The Cyberverse episodes "Allspark" and "The Journey" airs in Germany and Hungary.
• 2018 — Cyberverse episodes "Cube" and "Terminal Velocity" premieres in France.
• 2020 — Secrets & Lies #4 and Galaxies #11 are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2020 — The Generations Selects Special Comic Abominus comic 2 is first published.
• 2022 — The second wave of the EarthSpark toyline is revealed at the London Comic Con.
• 2022 — The Transformers Beyond Reality VR game launches in EU and AU Markets.
• 2023 — TakaraTomy releases TL-41 Dinobot Scowl, TL-42 Swoop, TL-43 Beachcomber, TL-44 Autobot Devcon, TL-45 Axelgrease, TL-46 Nemesis Leo Prime, TL-47 Megatron (Armada Universe), SS GE-01 Optimus Prime, SS GE-02 Bumblebee, SS GE-03 Decepticon Barricade and Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers Again BWVS-03 Instant Showdown: Cheetus VS Waspeeter, as well as the entire first wave of the EarthSpark toyline.
• 2023 — Hasbro hosts a panel at MCM London Comic Con officially revealing the first wave of Studio Series for 2024.
• 2024 — Preorders for the Studio Series 86 Scrapper and Bonecrusher go up.