** Sony Memory Stick ( Std / Duo / PRO / MagicGate versions )

** The Sony Walkman goes on sale for the first time in Japan.

** Resistance: Fall of Man, a Sony PlayStation 3 game

** Resistance: Retribution, a Sony PlayStation Portable game

** Resistance: Burning Skies, a Sony PlayStation Vita game

** The Sony Walkman goes on sale in the United States.

** By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

** Associated Television # ATV Music, a subsidiary, now part of Sony / ATV Music Publishing

** Sony CDP-101, the first commercially released Compact Disc player

** Yamaha YM2413 ( a. k. a. OPLL ), used in MSX in MSX Music cartridges like the FM-PAC and internally in several Japanese models by Panasonic, Sony and Sanyo ; also used in Sega Mark III ( Japanese version of Master System )

** SXRD Sony ’ s proprietary variant of LCoS technology.

** Debussy: Trois nocturnes and La damoiselle élue, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting ( Sony Classics )

** Mahler: Symphony No. 3, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting ( Sony Classics )

** AIBO, Sony ’ s cyber-dog

** Worldwide: August 2006: Dell recalls over four million notebook computer batteries, after a number of instances where the batteries, made by Sony, overheated or caught fire.

** August 2006: Following Dell's battery recall Apple Computer also recalls 1. 8 million Sony notebook computer batteries.

** Chairman & CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment

** CEO, Sony Corporation of America

** Co-Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment

** Chairman, Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment

** Vice Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment

** Sony PlayStation Export / Import / Viewer + Attribute Editors

** Riven, Titanic ( Academy Award for Best Visual FX ), Alien: Resurrection / Blue Sky, Spawn / Industrial Light & Magic ( 1997 ), Anastasia / Fox Animation Studio ( 1997 ), Batman et Robin / BUF Compagnie ( 1997 ), Contact / Sony Pictures Imageworks / Weta Ltd. ( 1997 ), Men In Black / Industrial Light & Magic ( 1997 ), Jurassic Park / Industrial Light & Magic ( 1997 ), Fifth Element / Digital Domain ( 1997 )/ Resident evil 1. 5 ( 2 Beta ) ( 1997 )

** Sony PlayStation HMD toolkit

** The Nickelodeon Television Channel, a children's cartoon channel, launches as The Pinwheel Network.

** The Soviet Union launches 2 scientific satellites, Elektron I and II, from a single rocket.

** Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet in July 1965.

** NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

** STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

** NASA launches the Cassini – Huygens probe to Saturn.

** Space Age – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.

** The Soviet Union launches Venera 6 toward Venus.

** The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 4.

** Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 ( James McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart ) to test the lunar module.

** The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy destroyer are sunk off the country's East Coast.

** Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II.

** The Empire of Japan launches invasions in Hong Kong, Malaya, Manila, Singapore and the Philippines.

** NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

** Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3 stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles ( the only sounding rocket developed in Germany ).

** NASA launches Syncom 2, the world's first geostationary ( synchronous ) satellite.

** Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission ( Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham ).

** France launches a counter-coup in the Comoros with 600 soldiers.

** The Soviet Union successfully launches the Luna 1 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome.

** Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

** The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.

** United States launches navigation satellite Transit I-b.

** Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches the satellite Sputnik 5, with the dogs Belka and Strelka ( the Russian for " Squirrel " and " Little Arrow "), 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.

** The BBC launches the world's first regular ( then ) high-definition television service.

** The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.