Rewinding to Wednesday 20 March 1963…
Wednesday · Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
The world on 20 March 1963 in Blackpool.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was light drizzle in Blackpool.
10°C/ 49°F high
Low of 3°C · 0.3 mm of rain · wind up to 9 mph
The sun rose at 06:16 and set at 18:23 — 12h 8m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
27% lit · 24.4 days into its cycle
Looking up from Blackpool that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 236,521 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Walk Like A Man”
by The 4 Seasons — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Hey Paula”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
United Kingdom’s shop prices from 1963 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. · 1963-03-20
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
3,320 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
63 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Pisces.
Star sign
Pisces
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Water Rabbit
Birthstone
Aquamarine
for your month
Birth flower
Daffodil
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Wednesday
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