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• 1958 — Actor John Nielsen is born.
• 1962 — Kensō Katō (voice of Waspeeter) is born, bun.
• 1965 — Voice actor Carlos Carvajal is born.
• 1967 — Venus Terzo (voice of Beast Wars Blackarachnia) is born.
• 1967 — Alexandre Gillet (French voice of Armada Billy) is born.
• 1974 — Rizwan Manji (Akram in Transformers) is born.
• 1981 — Actor Liam Garrigan is born.
• 1985 — The Transformers episode "City of Steel" premieres in the US.
• 1989 — The Victory episode "The Tide Is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification" premieres in Japan.
• 2003 — The Legends of the Microns episode "奇跡 (ふっかつ) - miracle" premieres in Japan.
• 2005 — The Cybertron episode "Primal" premieres in the US.
• 2006 — The 29th show in the Kiss Players radio drama series airs in Japan on the "Transformers Kiss Play: Transformers News Center" program.
• 2007 — Beast Wars: The Ascending #2 and Transformers: Magazine #3 are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2008 — Big Lots stores recall the bootleg Legends "Super Transform Ultimate End General Mobilization" toys due to legal pressure from Hasbro.
• 2009 — NASCAR racers Jeff Gordon and Ryan Newman drive special Revenge of the Fallen-themed cars at the NASCAR Sprint Cup NASCAR Banking 500 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Gordon finishes fourth, while Newman finishes in eleventh. In addition, race coverage on ABC/ESPN is presented by Revenge of the Fallen on DVD! Buy it!
• 2012 — The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye Volume 2 TPB and The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Seven HC are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2018 — Optimus Prime #24 is released by IDW Publishing.