Sony Walkman launched
1979 · Event
Sony's portable cassette player makes music personal and mobile, a landmark of consumer culture.
On these timelines: Japan, Master, Arts and Thoughts
More from Japan
- Edo period (1603)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi unifies Japan (1590)
Around 1979
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)