Rewinding to Sunday, July 23, 1961…
Sunday · Midland, Texas, United States
The world on July 23, 1961 in Midland.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Midland…
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
81% lit · 10.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Midland that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 231,641 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Tossin' And Turnin'”
by Bobby Lewis — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks, taking over from “Quarter To Three”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
MIDLAND · 1961-07-23
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
3,407 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
65 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Metal Ox
Birthstone
Ruby
for your month
Birth flower
Larkspur
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Sunday
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