1974

«	1974	»

The year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by ten years.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Events

Non-Fiction

• Takara launches the Microman line.
• Scotti Bros. Records is founded.

Births

• ???? — Gabriel Rodríguez, Katja Sirkiä, Marco Antônio Abreu

January

• January 3 — Kentarō Itō
• January 10 — Ryōka Yuzuki
• January 14 — Alexis Victor
• January 16 — Andrew Crossley
• January 21 — Sami Kuronen
• January 22 — Chip Wallace
• January 29 — Kōji Wada
• January 31 — Taketora

February

• February 28 — Cony Madera

March

• March 28 — Daisuke Kishio

April

• April 1 — Gyeong-su Hyeon
• April 4 — Masashi Endō
• April 7 — Tom Whalen

May

• May 30 — Fanny Roy

June

• June 6 — Scott Peat
• June 13 — Takahiro Sakurai
• June 29 — Janusz Kruciński

July

• July 2 — Sanjay Kharwar
• July 4 — Sean Galloway
• July 20 — Idzi Dutkiewicz
• July 22 — Ryō Naitō

August

• August 28 — Leonardo García
• August 29 — David Messina

September

• September 7 — Hiroki Takahashi
• September 8 — Nobuyuki Kobushi
• September 9 — Ferenc Hujber
• September 10 — Claudio Dos Santos
• September 30 — Frederik Haùgness

October

• October 7 — Alexander Polinsky
• October 17 — Rizwan Manji
• October 28 — Brent Miller

November

• November 12 — Haruo Yamagishi
• November 15 — Nelson Medina
• November 29 — Arturo Mercado Jr.

December

• December 10 — Sylvia Salustti
• December 30 — Moisés Ivan Mora

Undated

• ???? — Ty Olsson, Yuki Ohshima, Greg Sepelak

Fiction

Transformers/Back to the Future

After arriving in 2015 via Doc Brown's DeLorean time machine, Rumble found that the Decepticons had been defeated. Stealing the time machine, he travelled to 1974, enslaving Biff Tannen, and began building a stockpile of energon cubes until 1984. Transformers/Back to the Future #2