Rewinding to Tuesday 8 May 1945…

Tuesday · London, England, United Kingdom

The world on 8 May 1945 in London.

Outside

24°C, overcast

Moon

waning crescent

#1 song

Before the charts

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01The weather outside

It was overcast in London.

24°C/ 75°F high

Low of 13°C · dry · wind up to 10 mph

The sun rose at 04:19 and set at 19:35 — 15h 16m of daylight.

Reconstructed from the ERA5 climate reanalysis — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.

02The sky that night

A waning crescent watched over you.

14% lit · 26 days into its cycle

Looking up from London that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.

It was spring in your half of the world.

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.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1945-05-08

ITEM1945TODAYMinimum wagefederal, per hour$0.30$7.25Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.03$0.78

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

4,251 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles travelled

81 laps around the Sun

Mark your calendar: you’ll be 30,000 days old on June 27, 2027 — 238 days from now.

06Born under

A Tuesday's child, under Taurus.

Star sign

♉ Taurus

Earth sign

Chinese zodiac

🐓 Rooster

Wood Rooster

Birthstone

Emerald

for your month

Birth flower

Lily of the valley

for your month

Generation

Silent Generation

1928–1945

Day of the week

Tuesday

07 — 11 Still sealed

There’s more to your day.

5 more chapters are waiting, rebuilt from the same archives.

  • Your star

    A real star in Auriga, 81.1 light-years away.

  • The world that day

    5 moments in history happened on your exact date.

  • Birthday twins

    12 well-known people share your birthday.

  • If someone had invested

    The stock market has grown about 518× since you arrived.

  • Who ran the country in 1945

    2 leaders were in office the day you arrived.

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