Rewinding to Monday 26 December 1960…
Monday · Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
The world on 26 December 1960 in Rotorua.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was light drizzle in Rotorua.
25°C/ 77°F high
Low of 13°C · 0.5 mm of rain · wind up to 11 km/h
The sun rose at 5:51 am and set at 8:39 pm — 14h 48m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
63% lit · 8.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Rotorua that evening, you could have spotted Venus and Mars without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 386,037 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Are You Lonesome To-night?”
by Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks, taking over from “Stay”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
New Zealand’s shop prices from 1960 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. · 1960-12-26
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
3,436 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
65 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Monday's child, under Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Rat
Metal Rat
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Monday
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