Rewinding to Thursday 11 June 1959…
Thursday · Blackbird Leys, England, United Kingdom
Hugh, you arrived on 11 June 1959 in Blackbird Leys.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was overcast in Blackbird Leys.
18°C/ 65°F high
Low of 6°C · dry · wind up to 5 mph
The sun rose at 03:46 and set at 20:21 — 16h 35m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
26% lit · 5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Blackbird Leys that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 241,581 miles away, right about average.
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.
United Kingdom’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. · 1959-06-11
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
3,517 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
67 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday'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
Thursday
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