Rewinding to Tuesday 18 August 1959…
Tuesday · Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
The world on 18 August 1959 in Madurai.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 31°C in Madurai.
31°C/ 87°F high
Low of 23°C · 2.6 mm of rain
The sun rose at 6:08 am and set at 6:34 pm — 12h 26m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A full moon watched over you.
100% lit · 14.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Madurai that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 378,881 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “A Big Hunk O' Love”
by Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Lonely Boy”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1959-08-18
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
3,507 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
67 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Pig
Earth Pig
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Tuesday
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