mscully --
The answer is June 11, 1998.
The year-by-year timeline in Table 3 on page 13 of the attached PDF
document is the authoritative source of that information:
"11th June 1998 - Music store opens at Amazon.com"
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis: "Finding the Source of the
Amazon.com - Examining the Hype of the Earth's Biggest Bookstore," by
Martin Dodge
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/amazon.pdf
(The above is a PDF document that requires Adobe Reader to access. In
the unlikely event that this tool is not installed on your computer,
you can conveniently download it at no charge from this site):
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Search Strategy:
The following Google search uncovered the information:
amazon.com bezos timeline music
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLB,GGLB:1969-53,GGLB:en&q=amazon%2Ecom+bezos+timeline+music
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