Rewinding to Sunday 17 September 1950…
Sunday · Vadnagar, Gujarat, India
The world on 17 September 1950 in Vadnagar.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Vadnagar…
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
36% lit · 6.1 days into its cycle
Looking up from Vadnagar that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Jupiter without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 368,616 km away — closer than usual.
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.
India’s shop prices from 1950 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. · 1950-09-17
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
3,973 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
76 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Virgo.
Star sign
Virgo
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Metal Tiger
Birthstone
Sapphire
for your month
Birth flower
Aster
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Sunday
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