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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.
• 1951 — Eduardo Tejedo (Mexican voice of Daytrader and War for Cybertron Trilogy Shockwave) is born.
• 1959 — Dan DiDio, former Mainframe Entertainment executive, is born.
• 1962 — Martial Le Minoux (French voice of various characters including Air Raid in the War for Cybertron game and another Air Raid in the Dark of the Moon game) is born.
• 1964 — Masaya Onosaka (Japanese voice of Obsidian) is born.
• 1980 — Mami Fukai (voice of Miki) is born.
• 1980 — Artist Alex Milne is born.
• 1982 — Luo Yuting (Chinese voice of Raf Esquivel) 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.
• 1993 — Kaito Ishikawa (voice of Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns Shockwave) is born.
• 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.
• 2007 — The Transformers live-action movie is released on IMAX in The Netherlands.
• 2008 — Transformers Animated — Volume Eins: Drachenkämpfer is released on DVD in Germany by Paramount Pictures.
• 2009 — The Animated episode "Transwarped Part 2" premieres in Latin America.
• 2010 — The Transformers #12, the Transformers: Prime graphic novel, and Bots of Science are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2011 — The first day of New York Comic Con 2011. Hasbro attends and sells the exclusive Prime "Bumblebee and Arcee, Includes Raf Esquivel and Jack Darby" multi-pack.
• 2012 — The Super Robot Lifeform Transformers Prime episode "Hopeful Transformation! Aim for Planet Cybertron" premieres in Japan.
• 2014 — Hub Network re-launches as Discovery Family, on which Hasbro programming only airs in the daytime.
• 2014 — Transformers Prime — Season 2 Vol. 2: Nemesis Prime and Transformers Prime — Season 2 Vol. 2: Nemesis Prime - Limited Edition are released to home media in the United Kingdom by Primal Screen.
• 2015 — Towa Pictures who distributes the Live-action film series in Japan starting with The Last Knight is founded.
• 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.
• 2018 — Transformers: Cyberverse episode "Fractured" premieres in Italy.
• 2019 — The Cyberverse episodes "Escape From Earth" and "Party Down"
• 2021 — Tread & Circuits #1 and King Grimlock #3 are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2023 — The "Fortnite Transformers Pack!" is released at retail.
• 2023 — Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition is released for consoles and PC.
• 2024 — The French premiere of Transformers One in Paris, nine days before the release of the film in French theaters.
• 2024 — The Transformers: EarthSpark episode "Aftermath" premieres on YTV in Canada.