Rewinding to Wednesday 13 April 1949…
Wednesday · Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
The world on 13 April 1949 in Portsmouth.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was overcast in Portsmouth.
14°C/ 57°F high
Low of 10°C · dry · wind up to 16 mph
The sun rose at 05:13 and set at 18:57 — 13h 44m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A full moon watched over you.
99% lit · 15.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Portsmouth that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 223,758 miles away — closer than usual, a supermoon.
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.
United Kingdom’s shop prices from 1949 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. · 1949-04-13
BREAD COSTS 14× WHAT IT DID
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
4,047 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
77 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Earth Ox
Birthstone
Diamond
for your month
Birth flower
Daisy
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Wednesday
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