Rewinding to Tuesday, May 12, 1959…
Tuesday · New York, United States
The world on May 12, 1959 in New York.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 86°F in New York.
86°F/ 30°C high
Low of 66°F · dry
The sun rose at 5:42 am and set at 8:02 pm — 14h 20m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
23% lit · 4.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from New York that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 247,160 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “The Happy Organ”
by Dave "Baby" Cortez — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Come Softly To Me”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
NEW YORK · 1959-05-12
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
3,521 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
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Tuesday
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