Rewinding to Sunday 15 July 1956…
Sunday · Stretford, England, United Kingdom
Ian, you arrived on 15 July 1956 in Stretford.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 18°C in Stretford.
18°C/ 65°F high
Low of 12°C · 8.8 mm of rain
The sun rose at 04:59 and set at 21:30 — 16h 31m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A first quarter watched over you.
60% lit · 8.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Stretford that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 242,132 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.
United Kingdom’s shop prices from 1956 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. · 1956-07-15
BREAD COSTS 12× 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
3,669 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
70 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Cancer.
Star sign
Cancer
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Fire Monkey
Birthstone
Ruby
for your month
Birth flower
Larkspur
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Sunday
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