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• 1946 — Live-action film producer Steven Spielberg is born, followed by long slow shots of people looking.
• 1956 — T.K. Carter (voice of Rocksteady) is born.
• 1978 — Voice actor Shinobu Matsumoto is born.
• 1978 — Actor Ravi Patel is born.
• 1987 — The Headmasters episodes "Battle for Defense of the False Planet", "Find MegaZarak's Weak Spot!!" and "Head Formation of Friendship" premiere in Japan.
• 1989 — Jim Gosa (voice of Abominus) dies at the age of 58.
• 1999 — The Beast Machines episode "End of the Line" premieres in the US.
• 1999 — The Beast Wars - BEAST WARS TRANSFORMER SONGS BEST soundtrack album is released in Japan by Columbia Music Entertainment.
• 2002 — Transformers Armada #5 is released by Dreamwave Productions.
• 2003 — DreamMix TV World Fighters is released for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube.
• 2004 — The Beast Wars Returns episode "The End" premieres in Japan.
• 2004 — Gernot Duda (German voice of Generation 1 Megatron and Grimlock plus some others he did for one or two episodes) dies.
• 2009 — Revenge of the Fallen is released on DVD and Blu-ray in Japan, with several stores featuring exclusive toy pack-ins.
• 2009 — The TakaraTomy Transformers Animated website goes live. Coincidentally, Sebastian Evans II, music composer for the Animated cartoon, posts the score for all three seasons on his website, lastbastianmusic.com.
• 2010 — The Animated episode "Take Off! Optimus Prime" premieres in Japan.
• 2010 — The Japanese Autobot Alliance versions of Hailstorm, Highbrow, Tomahawk and Terradive are released.
• 2013 — Transformers: The Art of Prime, Regeneration One #97 and Robots in Disguise #24 (Dark Cybertron Chapter 5) are released by IDW Publishing.