Rewinding to Wednesday, January 17, 1962…
Wednesday · Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Jim, you arrived on January 17, 1962 in Newmarket.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of -5°C in Newmarket.
-5°C/ 23°F high
Low of -15°C · 0.8 mm of rain
The sun rose at 7:48 am and set at 5:07 pm — 9h 19m of daylight.
Estimated by NOAA’s 20th Century Reanalysis on a regional grid (about 100 km). Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
93% lit · 12.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Newmarket that evening, you could have spotted Uranus without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 392,642 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “The Twist”
by Chubby Checker — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1962-01-17
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
3,381 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
64 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Metal Ox
Birthstone
Garnet
for your month
Birth flower
Carnation
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Wednesday
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