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• 1927 — Storyboard artist Bob Smith is born in Pasadena, California.
• 1946 — Sae-han Kim (Korean voice of Ultra Magnus) is born.
• 1959 — After a failed test run by the Extra-Terrestrial Response Division, the captive Land Military Mini-Con Team escape from Area 54 to Stillwater, Nevada. They are recaptured, but not before requesting help from a local. Blast from the Past!
• 1971 — Jorge Saudinós (Castillian Spanish voice of Red Alert, Side Swipe, Tidal Wave, Superion Maximus, Padlock, Jack Darby and Vehicon) is born.
• 1972 — Igor Cruz (Mexican voice of Razorpaw) is born.
• 1976 — Noé Velázquez (Mexican voice of Sharsky and Dropkick) is born.
• 1979 — Comic artist Robert Deas is born in the UK.
• 1982 — A report issued by Sector Seven initiates Operation Hungry Dragon. Sector Seven ARG
• 1987 — The Headmasters episode "Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime" premieres in Japan.
• 1987 — Thibaut Delmotte (French voice of Hot Shot in Rescue Bots Academy and also CAT) is born.
• 1991 — Brieuc Lemaire (French voice of Scorch and Wes in Rescue Bots Academy) is born.
• 1997 — Woolworth's closes its remaining department stores in the U.S.
• 1999 — Second day of BotCon 1999, during which the first episode of Beast Machines, "The Reformatting", is screened in advance of its television premiere on Fox Kids.
• 1999 — The Beast Wars: Metals theatrical release's OP/ED single "Ano Yume no Kanata e"/"WA! WA! Wonderland" is released in Japan by Columbia Music Entertainment.
• 2002 — Generation 1: Prime Directive #4 is released by Dreamwave Productions.
• 2003 — Takara releases Legends of the Microns MD-06 Shockwave, MM-12 Air Military Micron Exdimensions, and MM-13 Space Micron.
• 2005 — Galaxy Force - Phase IGNITION is released in Japan by JIVE.
• 2006 — The 16th show in the Kiss Players radio drama series airs in Japan on the "Lyrian Moe-tchao" program.
• 2006 — The Toonami Jetstream streaming service is launched.
• 2008 — Henkei! Henkei! volume 4 is first published.
• 2008 — TakaraTomy releases Henkei! Henkei! C-06 Skyfire and D-04 Ramjet.
• 2008 — The Animated episode "Mission erfüllt" premieres in Germany.
• 2009 — Television Anchorman Walter Cronkite dies at age 92.
• 2010 — The Animated episode "Elite Guard" debuts in Japan.
• 2011 — "Street date" for the Target exclusives Space Case and the "Cybertron tattoos" versions of Bumblebee, Arcee, and Jazz.
• 2013 — Regeneration One #93 and More than Meets the Eye Volume 4 TPB are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2014 — Age of Extinction is released in Austria, Brazil, Germany, Peru, and Switzerland.
• 2014 — Cloud: Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Chapter 3: Part 4 is first published.
• 2016 — The Robots in Disguise episode "Metal Meltdown" premieres in Japan.
• 2017 — The Rescue Bots episodes "Movers and Shakers", "Odd Bot Out", "The Griffin Rock Express", "Double Villainy" and "Chief Woodrow" premiere in Italy.
• 2019 — Transformers #9 and Transformers/Ghostbusters #2 are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2020 — First day of pre-orders on Hasbro Pulse for Generations Selects WFC-GS11 Decepticon Exhaust, WFC-GS12 Greasepit, and WFC-GS13 Hubcap.
• 2020 — Hasbro hosts a Fan First Friday online event.
• 2023 — Final day of TakaraTomy's crowd funding campaign for the Lunar Cruiser Prime.
• 2024 — Destro #2 is released by Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment.
• 2025 — Transformers: Rise of the Beasts begins streaming on the Telecine streaming service.
• 2025 — Walmart.com reveals the Transformers Retro Seaspray.