Rewinding to Sunday, June 7, 1959…
Sunday · Columbus, Indiana, United States
Mike, you arrived on June 7, 1959 in Columbus.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was partly cloudy in Columbus.
86°F/ 30°C high
Low of 62°F · dry · wind up to 6 mph
The sun rose at 5:17 am and set at 8:07 pm — 14h 50m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
3% lit · 1.4 days into its cycle
Looking up from Columbus that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Jupiter without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 249,493 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “The Battle Of New Orleans”
by Johnny Horton — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks, taking over from “Kansas City”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
COLUMBUS · 1959-06-07
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
3,518 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
67 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Pig
Earth Pig
Birthstone
Pearl
for your month
Birth flower
Rose
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Sunday
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