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• ???? — Pascual Meza (Mexican voice of Burgertron and Seymour Simmons) is born.
• 1930 — Francis Lax (European French voice of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide and many others in the original cartoon) is born.
• 1937 — Francette Vernillat (European French voice of Daniel in a pair of episodes of The Transformers) is born.
• 1949 — Tomasz Marzecki (Polish voice of Energon Unicron, Scorponok, Skyblast, Brakedown, Metroplex and Colonel Franklin) is born.
• 1952 — Voice actor Billy West (voice of the Red M&M) is born.
• 1955 — Comic artist Kim DeMulder is born.
• 1975 — Sébastien Hébrant (French voice of Hoist in Rescue Bots Academy) is born.
• 1979 — Dirk Stollberg (German voice of Frat guys and Vernon) is born.
• 1986 — Betzabé Jara (Mexican voice of Frenzy, Spitfire and Batsby) is born.
• 1999 — Regis Cordic (voice of Generation 1 Menasor and various Quintessons) dies of cancer at the age of 72.
• 2003 — War and Peace #1 is released in the US by Dreamwave Productions.
• 2004 — The Super Link episode "Enemy? Ally? Rodimus Convoy" airs in Japan.
• 2004 — Transformers: Energon makes its Canadian television broadcast premiere on YTV airing the first three episodes Cybertron City, Energon Stars, and Scorpinok.
• 2005 — The Galaxy Force episode "Bud and Hop's Trip to the City" airs in Japan.
• 2011 — The Transformers: Prime episode "Predatory" premieres on The Hub.
• 2012 — Pre-order window opens for United Artfire with Nightstick and Sparks.
• 2012 — The Prime episode "One Shall Rise, Part 1" premieres in Brazil.
• 2014 — The Transformers: Windblade #1 and Dark Cybertron Vol 1 TPB are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2015 — The third BotCon 2015 box set exclusive Stepper is revealed.
• 2016 — The Robots in Disguise episodes "Decepticon Island (Part 1)" and "Decepticon Island (Part 2)" premiere on Cartoon Network UK, while "Impounded" premieres on Cartoon Network USA.
• 2019 — The Generations Selects Special Comic Star Convoy comic is first published.
• 2023 — The Beast Wars Again episode "Defeat the Destrons" airs on TV Tokyo.
• 2023 — Final day of the Rise of the Beasts Optimus Prime & Optimus Primal World Tour in São Paulo, Brazil.
• 2024 — On this Transformers Tuesday reissues for the Generations Selects WFC-GS17 Shattered Glass Optimus Prime & Shattered Glass Ratchet and Siege WFC-S28 Jetfire go up for preorder.