Rewinding to Thursday, July 14, 1960…

Thursday · Evergreen Park, Illinois, United States

The world on July 14, 1960 in Evergreen Park.

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01The weather outside

A high of 74°F in Evergreen Park.

74°F/ 23°C high

Low of 59°F · dry

The sun rose at 5:28 am and set at 8:24 pm — 14h 56m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A last quarter watched over you.

56% lit · 21.6 days into its cycle

Looking up from Evergreen Park that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.

It was summer in your half of the world.

The Moon was 240,369 miles away, right about average.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Alley-Oop”

by Hollywood Argyles — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Everybody's Somebody's Fool”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

EVERGREEN PARK · 1960-07-14

ITEM1960TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb≈$0.16$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large≈$0.20$2.27Gallon of milkwhole≈$0.36$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded≈$0.39$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast≈$0.82$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$1.00$7.25Median new homeUS sale price≈$34,559$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.04$0.78

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

3,460 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

66 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Thursday's child, under Cancer.

Star sign

Cancer

Water sign

Chinese zodiac

Rat

Metal Rat

Birthstone

Ruby

for your month

Birth flower

Larkspur

for your month

Generation

Baby Boomers

1946–1964

Day of the week

Thursday

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