Rewinding to Tuesday 31 October 1961…
Tuesday · Wellington, New Zealand
Peter, you arrived on 31 October 1961 in Wellington.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 16°C in Wellington.
16°C/ 61°F high
Low of 9°C · 0.6 mm of rain
The sun rose at 5:09 am and set at 7:00 pm — 13h 50m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A last quarter watched over you.
50% lit · 22.1 days into its cycle
Looking up from Wellington that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 402,653 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Runaround Sue”
by Dion — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Hit The Road Jack”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
New Zealand’s shop prices from 1961 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. · 1961-10-31
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
3,392 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
65 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Scorpio.
Star sign
Scorpio
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Metal Ox
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Tuesday
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