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• 1946 — Masaharu Satō (voice of Punch/Counterpunch in The Headmasters) is born.
• 1960 — Voice actor Kōji Ishii is born.
• 1964 — Voice actress Chie Satō is born.
• 1972 — Tetsu Inada is born, and it's council business.
• 1986 — Shrapnel, Bombshell, and Kickback arrive on Earth over the space bridge. Sometime over the next three days Megatron has their bodies adapted into Earth insects for disguise. Aerialbots over America!
• 1987 — The Headmasters OP/ED single "The Headmasters"/"Kimi wa Transformer" is released in Japan by Columbia Music Entertainment.
• 1990 — The Super-God Masterforce episode "The Troublemaking Little Monsters" premieres in Malaysia.
• 1998 — The Beast Wars II episode "The Combined Giant, Tripledacus" premieres in Japan.
• 2004 — The Energon episode "Energon Grid" premieres in the US.
• 2004 — Enrique Mederos (voice of Nightscream in the Latin American Spanish Beast Machines dub) passes away.
• 2007 — "Theft of the Golden Disk" premieres at BotCon 2007.
• 2009 — Classic Transformers Volume 4 and "Spotlight: Metroplex" are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2009 — General Motors, manufacturer of several alt modes for the Live Action Movie series, files for US government-assisted bankruptcy protection.
• 2011 — The original theatrical release date for Transformers: Dark of the Moon in the US; on May 20 the release was moved up to Wednesday June 29.
• 2012 — Second day of the Next Generation World Hobby Fair Summer '12 in Fukuoka, Japan. No contests, but attendees can still early-purchase AMW Microns Gabu, Baru and Dai (with free bonus Firebolt Clear Yellow Version with the purchase of all three).
• 2015 — The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone TPB is released by IDW Publishing.