Rewinding to Tuesday, July 3, 1962…
Tuesday · Syracuse, New York, United States
The world on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was overcast in Syracuse.
80°F/ 27°C high
Low of 58°F · dry · wind up to 8 mph
The sun rose at 4:29 am and set at 7:47 pm — 15h 17m of daylight.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
4% lit · 2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Syracuse that evening, you could have spotted Venus without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 244,988 miles away — farther than usual.
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.
GENERAL STORE
SYRACUSE · 1962-07-03
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
3,357 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
64 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Cancer.
Star sign
Cancer
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Water Tiger
Birthstone
Ruby
for your month
Birth flower
Larkspur
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Tuesday
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