Rewinding to Thursday, August 16, 1962…
Thursday · Concord, Massachusetts, United States
The world on August 16, 1962 in Concord.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 87°F in Concord.
87°F/ 31°C high
Low of 62°F · dry
The sun rose at 5:52 am and set at 7:45 pm — 13h 53m of daylight.
Measured at the BosTon weather station, 4 km away (NOAA GHCN-Daily). 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 waning gibbous watched over you.
98% lit · 16.1 days into its cycle
Looking up from Concord that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 223,980 miles away — closer than usual, a supermoon.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do”
by Neil Sedaka — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Roses Are Red (My Love)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
CONCORD · 1962-08-16
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
3,351 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
64 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Water Tiger
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Thursday
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