Rewinding to Tuesday 21 April 1959…
Tuesday · Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
Robert, you arrived on 21 April 1959 in Blackpool.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Blackpool…
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
97% lit · 13.2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Blackpool that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 224,317 miles away — closer than usual, a supermoon.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Come Softly To Me”
by The Fleetwoods — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Venus”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1959-04-21
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
3,524 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
67 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Taurus.
Star sign
Taurus
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Pig
Earth Pig
Birthstone
Diamond
for your month
Birth flower
Daisy
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Tuesday
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