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.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
On June 30, 1905, Albert Einstein publishes “Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper (On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies),”
a paper that sets out his theory of special relativity, in the
German physics journal Annalen der Physik. Einstein’s
groundbreaking work shatters the foundations of physics.
On June 30, 1953, workers at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan,
watch as the first completed Corvette, a two-seater sports car
that would become an American icon, rolls off the assembly line.
It was one of just 300 Corvettes made that year.
