Rewinding to Thursday, July 7, 1949…
Thursday · Fort Worth, Texas, United States
The world on July 7, 1949 in Fort Worth.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 101°F in Fort Worth.
101°F/ 38°C high
Low of 76°F · dry
The sun rose at 6:27 am and set at 8:40 pm — 14h 13m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
94% lit · 12.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Fort Worth that evening, you could have spotted Venus and Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 234,155 miles 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.
GENERAL STORE
FORT WORTH · 1949-07-07
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
4,035 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
77 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Cancer.
Star sign
Cancer
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Earth Ox
Birthstone
Ruby
for your month
Birth flower
Larkspur
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Thursday
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