Rewinding to Saturday 14 June 1958…
Saturday · Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany
The world on 14 June 1958 in Osnabrück.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was overcast in Osnabrück.
18°C/ 65°F high
Low of 9°C · dry · wind up to 10 km/h
The sun rose at 04:06 and set at 20:50 — 16h 44m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
6% lit · 27.1 days into its cycle
Looking up from Osnabrück that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 397,647 km away — farther 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.
Germany’s shop prices from 1958 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. · 1958-06-14
BREAD COSTS 11× 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
3,569 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
68 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Dog
Earth Dog
Birthstone
Pearl
for your month
Birth flower
Rose
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Saturday
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