Rewinding to Wednesday 4 December 1963…
Wednesday · Luhansk, Ukraine
The world on 4 December 1963 in Luhansk.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was clear skies in Luhansk.
-2°C/ 28°F high
Low of -11°C · dry · wind up to 11 km/h
The sun rose at 06:56 and set at 15:28 — 8h 32m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
81% lit · 19 days into its cycle
Looking up from Luhansk that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 372,247 km away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “I'm Leaving It Up To You”
by Dale & Grace — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Deep Purple”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Ukraine’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. · 1963-12-04
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
3,283 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
62 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Sagittarius.
Star sign
Sagittarius
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Water Rabbit
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Wednesday
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