Rewinding to Saturday, May 6, 1961…
Saturday · Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky, United States
The world on May 6, 1961 in Lexington-Fayette.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Lexington-Fayette…
02The sky that night
A last quarter watched over you.
57% lit · 21.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Lexington-Fayette that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 229,685 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Runaway”
by Del Shannon — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Blue Moon”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
LEXINGTON-FAYETTE · 1961-05-06
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
3,418 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
65 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Taurus.
Star sign
Taurus
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Metal Ox
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Saturday
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