Rewinding to Wednesday 30 December 1959…
Wednesday · Slough, England, United Kingdom
The world on 30 December 1959 in Slough.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was overcast in Slough.
11°C/ 52°F high
Low of 7°C · dry · wind up to 20 mph
The sun rose at 08:08 and set at 16:01 — 7h 53m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
2% lit · 1.2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Slough that evening, you could have spotted Uranus without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 224,250 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Why”
by Frankie Avalon — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Heartaches By The Number”.
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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. · 1959-12-30
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
3,488 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
66 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Pig
Earth Pig
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Wednesday
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