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
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Edo period (1603)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
Around 1979
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Dancing Queen (ABBA) (1976)
- Imagine (John Lennon) (1971)