Rewinding to Friday 31 May 1963…
Friday · Székesfehérvár, Fejér, Hungary
Viktor, you arrived on 31 May 1963 in Székesfehérvár.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was drizzle in Székesfehérvár.
24°C/ 75°F high
Low of 14°C · 1.5 mm of rain · wind up to 15 km/h
The sun rose at 03:55 and set at 19:32 — 15h 37m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
66% lit · 8.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Székesfehérvár that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 401,708 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “If You Wanna Be Happy”
by Jimmy Soul — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “I Will Follow Him”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Hungary’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. · 1963-05-31
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
3,310 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
63 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Water Rabbit
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Friday
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