Rewinding to Tuesday 6 October 1942…
Tuesday · Stockholm, Sweden
The world on 6 October 1942 in Stockholm.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 15°C in Stockholm.
15°C/ 58°F high
Low of 8°C · dry
The sun rose at 07:02 and set at 18:08 — 11h 6m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
13% lit · 26.1 days into its cycle
Looking up from Stockholm that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 391,275 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
Before the charts began.
The weekly singles chart we use begins in August 1958 — your day predates it.
04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Sweden’s shop prices from 1942 aren’t in the records we use, so here is what the same basket cost in the US that day.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1942-10-06
US national averages · ≈ = estimated from inflation
05Your life in numbers
Since that day, you have lived…
0
seconds
and counting, right now
0
heartbeats
at a resting average of 80 a minute
0
breaths
give or take a few yawns
0
sunrises
4,387 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
84 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Horse
Water Horse
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Silent Generation
1928–1945
Day of the week
Tuesday
And so much more you’d never guess or remember.
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