Rewinding to Friday 29 June 1962…
Friday · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The world on 29 June 1962 in Barcelona.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 26°C in Barcelona.
26°C/ 78°F high
Low of 20°C · dry
The sun rose at 05:20 and set at 20:28 — 15h 8m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
6% lit · 27.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Barcelona that evening, you could have spotted Venus without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 378,679 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “I Can't Stop Loving You”
by Ray Charles — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “Stranger On The Shore”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Spain’s shop prices from 1962 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. · 1962-06-29
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
3,358 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
64 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Cancer.
Star sign
Cancer
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Water Tiger
Birthstone
Pearl
for your month
Birth flower
Rose
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Friday
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