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• 1890 — Earliest date for Jetfire to assume the alt mode of a pre-dreadnought battleship and masquerade as the USS Maine.
• 1928 — Mickey Mouse is born, as the first cartoon to feature the character Steamboat Willie is first released.
• 1931 — Garcia Neto (Brazillian voice of Ratchet, Unicron and more) is born.
• 1946 — Writer Alan Dean Foster is born.
• 1981 — Guillermo García (Latin-American Spanish voice of Snarl) is born.
• 1982 — Akeno Watanabe (Japanese voice of Slipstream, Shadow Striker, Clobber, Chromia and Karen Croft) is born.
• 1983 — Laurence Dauphinais (Canadian French voice of Darcy Tirrel) is born.
• 1985 — The Transformers episode "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide" premieres in the U.S.
• 1986 — The Transformers episode "Call of the Primitives" premieres in the U.S.
• 1989 — Johnny Haymer (the voice of the original The Transformers cartoon Swindle) dies of cancer at age 69.
• 1990 — The Super-God Masterforce episode "The Struggle Between Life and Death" premieres in Malaysia.
• 1990 — Namakan Koné (European French voice of Jimmy in The Last Knight) is born.
• 1991 — Magdalena Herman-Urbańska (Polish voice of Hashtag and Arcee) is born.
• 1996 — The Beast Wars episode "The Trigger, Part 1" premieres in the U.S.
• 1998 — The Beast Wars II episode "Knock Out Nemesis" premieres in Japan.
• 2000 — The Beast Machines series finale "Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future" premieres on Fox Kids in the U.S.
• 2004 — Takara releases the Robot Masters RM-15 Star Saber, RM-16 Victory Leo and RM-17 Victory Saber.
• 2009 — IDW Publishing's new ongoing series launches with The Transformers #1.
• 2011 — The Transformers: Prime episode "Deus ex Machina" premieres in Germany.
• 2011 — Minecraft is launched.
• 2012 — Transformers: Prime - The Game is released as a launch title for the Nintendo Wii U.
• 2013 — The second-third of the Prime movie, "Predacons Rising - Part 2", premieres in episode form on The Hub.
• 2014 — The Rescue Bots episode "What Lies Below" premieres in Hungary.
• 2015 — The Transformers (vol.2) #47 is released by IDW Publishing.
• 2017 — The Robots in Disguise episode "Guilty As Charged" premieres in Hungary.
• 2017 — The Robots in Disguise episode "Sick as a Bot" premieres in France.
• 2018 — The Cyberverse episodes "Siloed" and "Matrix of Leadership" premieres in France.
• 2018 — The Cyberverse episodes "Cube" and "Terminal Velocity" premieres in Hungary.
• 2018 — Kim Il (Korean voice of Optimus Prime) dies at the age of 51.
• 2020 — Kirby Morrow (voice of Rad White and Cybertron Hot Shot) dies at the age of 47 due to substance abuse.
• 2021 — Leonardo José (Brazilian voice of Hound) dies at age 78.
• 2022 — Hasbro Pulse reveals the first colour renders of the HasLab Victory/Legacy Decepticon Deathsaurus with Tigerchest and Eaglechest.
• 2022 — The Transformers: EarthSpark episode "Classified" premieres on Nickelodeon in the UK.
• 2022 — Transformers: EarthSpark premieres in Germany.