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• ???? — Yoshiyuki Matsūra (Japanese voice of Fixit and War for Cybertron Trilogy Mirage) is born.
• 1919 — Director Tom Ray is born in Arizona.
• 1932 — Dennis Marks (writer of "The Golden Lagoon" and "The Core") is born.
• 1942 — Marvel inker Dave Hunt is born.
• 1944 — Helmut Gauß (German voice of Silverbolt, Bumblebee, Shockwave and Clawtrap) is born.
• 1950 — Mariko Takigawa (Japanese voice of Gabriella Constanza) is born.
• 1951 — Noah Nelson (voice of Transformers The Game Blackout) is born.
• 1958 — Show Hayami (Japanese voice of Spike Witwicky, Ironhide, Tracks, Ultra Magnus, Sixknight, Vector Prime and more) is born.
• 1959 — Hiroshi Ōtaki (Japanese voice of L. W. Wilder) is born.
• 1960 — Virginie Ledieu (European French voice of Elise Presser) is born.
• 1963 — Alberto Bognanni (Italian voice of G1 Wheeljack and Starscream in the 2008 redub) is born.
• 1968 — Kim Strauss (voice of Robots in Disguise (2001) Ultra Magnus) is born.
• 1988 — The Super-God Masterforce episode "Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai" premieres in Japan.
• 1991 — José Ángel Torres (Mexican voice of Noah Díaz and Mohawk) is born.
• 1992 — The Headmasters episode "The Resurrected Billy Against the Decepticons" airs in Malaysia.
• 2000 — The Car Robots episode "Awaken To Righteousness! Black Convoy" premieres in Japan.
• 2003 — Japanese Ito Yokaido stores offer the Race Micron Road Assault Edition toys (Drift, Indy, and Spin), one free with the purchase of Legend of the Microns MC-09 Jetfire or MD-05 Shockwave... though apparently many stores gave them away with any Legend of the Microns purchase.
• 2004 — Transformers: Robots in Disguise—Volume One is released on DVD in the UK by Maximum Entertainment.
• 2005 — Eom Joo-hwan (Korean voice of Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime and Unicron) dies at the age of 55.
• 2008 — The Transformers Animated episode "Lost and Found" premieres in Latin America.
• 2009 — Final day of the Canadaian Chevy/GM mall contest promotion where you could get a free Aveo Swerve. Yes, free.
• 2010 — Fourth day of Cybertron Con 2010 in Shanghai, China.
• 2011 — Dark of the Moon hits the $1 billion mark in worldwide box office receipts, the first Paramount film to do so... and all in just under five weeks of release. Holy crap.
• 2014 — The Rescue Bots episode "Rise of the Heroes" premieres on Hub Network.
• 2016 — The Combiner Wars episode "The Fall" premieres on go90.
• 2017 — Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #2 and Revolutionaries, Volume 1: Crisis Intervention TPB are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2019 — The Generations Selects Special Comic Seacons comic 1 is first published.
• 2022 — Renegade Game Studios releases the Transformers Roleplaying Game core rulebook as a digital PDF.
• 2023 — Final day of the Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Special Edition release in Peru cinemas.