Rewinding to Wednesday 23 May 1951…
Wednesday · Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
The world on 23 May 1951 in Zlatoust.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was drizzle in Zlatoust.
21°C/ 70°F high
Low of 8°C · 1.1 mm of rain · wind up to 18 km/h
The sun rose at 04:41 and set at 21:15 — 16h 34m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
91% lit · 17.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from Zlatoust that evening, you could have spotted Venus and Saturn without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 360,376 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.
Russia’s shop prices from 1951 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. · 1951-05-23
BREAD COSTS 13× 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
3,937 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
75 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Metal Rabbit
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Wednesday
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