Jimmy Lee Swaggart (March 15, 1935 – July 1, 2025)
Jimmy Lee Swaggart (March 15, 1935 – July 1, 2025)
The metal-cased blue-and-silver Walkman TPS-L2, the world’s first
low-cost personal stereo, went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979,
and was sold for around $150.00.
Though Sony predicted it would sell about 5,000 units a month, it
sold more than 30,000 in the first two months. It would spark a
revolution in portable electronics.


The last Thunderbird, Ford Motor Company’s iconic sports car,
emerged from a Ford factory in Wixom, Michigan on July 1, 2005.
Ford began its development of the Thunderbird in the years
following World War II.