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• 1948 — Regine Albrecht (voice of Strika in the German dub of Beast Machines) is born.
• 1955 — Corey Burton (voice of Generation 1 Spike and Shockwave, Animated Ratchet and Megatron, and more), is born.
• 1960 — Ari Wirta (Finnish voice of Cyclonus, Wing Saber, Brimstone and Thundercracker) is born.
• 1962 — Tōru Furusawa (Japanese voice of Generation 1 Paul Gates and sometimes Jazz and Sideswipe) is born.
• 1972 — Sumalee Montano (voice of Prime Arcee) is born.
• 1976 — Comic writer and editor Andy Schmidt is born.
• 1981 — Travis Willingham (voice of Sideswipe in War for Cybertron, Onslaught and Slug in Fall of Cybertron, and Motormaster in Robots in Disguise) is born as a family man.
• 1981 — Kim Gook-jin (Korean voice of Drift) is born.
• 1985 — The Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers episode "The Return of Megatron" premieres in Japan.
• 1994 — The Headmasters episode "I Risk My Life for Earth" premieres in Russia.
• 1995 — Lim Chaebin (Korean voice of Nightshade) is born.
• 2000 — The Car Robots—Original Soundtrack album is released in Japan by Interchannel.
• 2007 — The Transformers live-action movie is released in Austria and Estonia.
• 2010 — First day of the Transformers Museum event in Ozu, Japan.
• 2010 — Ratchet to the Rescue and Satellite Meltdown are published in the US by HarperCollins.
• 2010 — Final day of Cybertron Con 2010 in Shanghai, China.
• 2012 — Marc Alfos (French voice of Megatron in the first two movie video games and Warpath in the War for Cybertron game) passes away at 56 from a heart attack.
• 2014 — Age of Extinction hits the $1 billion mark in worldwide box office receipts. The second Paramount & Transformers film to do so. Once more, Holy Crap.
• 2014 — The Transformers Rising Game officially launches in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.
• 2014 — TakaraTomy releases the Evolution 2-pack Bumblebee and Grimlock sets as Toys"R"Us Japan exclusives.
• 2015 — TakaraTomy releases Lost Age AD-31 Black Knight Optimus Prime.
• 2015 — The Robots in Disguise series make its series premiere in Russia with the episodes "Pilot (Part 1)" and "Pilot (Part 2)".
• 2015 — The Q-Transformers" episode "The Road to Smoothly Conveying the Content of the Movie" first premieres.
• 2016 — The Transformers vol. 2 #55 (print) and Transformers vs. G.I. Joe Volume 3 TPB are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2017 — Transformers: The Last Knight is released in Israel.
• 2020 — Beyond Home Entertainment shuts down and moves towards streaming distribution.
• 2022 — Transformers: Best of the Rarities is released by IDW Publishing.
• 2023 — Final day of the Rise of the Beasts Optimus Prime, Optimus Primal and Mirage World Tour in Tokyo, Japan.
• 2024 — The EarthSpark episode "Witwicky, Part 1" premieres in France and Turkey.