Rewinding to Monday 16 February 1959…
Monday · Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
The world on 16 February 1959 in Wiesbaden.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was overcast in Wiesbaden.
8°C/ 46°F high
Low of -2°C · dry · wind up to 7 km/h
The sun rose at 07:37 and set at 17:45 — 10h 8m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A first quarter watched over you.
60% lit · 8.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Wiesbaden that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Uranus without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 401,172 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Stagger Lee”
by Lloyd Price — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Germany’s shop prices from 1959 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. · 1959-02-16
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
3,533 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
67 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Monday's child, under Aquarius.
Star sign
Aquarius
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Pig
Earth Pig
Birthstone
Amethyst
for your month
Birth flower
Violet
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Monday
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