Rewinding to Sunday, February 9, 1964…

Sunday · New York, United States

The world on February 9, 1964 in New York.

Outside

33°F, overcast

Moon

waning crescent

#1 song

I Want To Hold Your Hand

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01The weather outside

It was overcast in New York.

33°F/ 1°C high

Low of 22°F · dry · wind up to 13 mph

The sun rose at 7:58 am and set at 6:22 pm — 10h 24m of daylight.

Reconstructed from the ERA5 climate reanalysis — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.

02The sky that night

A waning crescent watched over you.

12% lit · 26.2 days into its cycle

Looking up from New York that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Uranus without a telescope.

It was winter in your half of the world.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “I Want To Hold Your Hand”

by The Beatles — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks, taking over from “There! I've Said It Again”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

NEW YORK · 1964-02-09

ITEM1964TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb≈$0.17$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large≈$0.21$2.27Gallon of milkwhole≈$0.38$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded≈$0.41$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast≈$0.86$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$1.25$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$18,500$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.05$0.78

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

3,273 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles travelled

62 laps around the Sun

Mark your calendar: you’ll be 2 billion seconds old on June 26, 2027 — 238 days from now.

06Born under

A Sunday's child, under Aquarius.

Star sign

♒ Aquarius

Air sign

Chinese zodiac

🐇 Rabbit

Water Rabbit

Birthstone

Amethyst

for your month

Birth flower

Violet

for your month

Generation

Baby Boomers

1946–1964

Day of the week

Sunday

07 — 11 Still sealed

There’s more to your day.

5 more chapters are waiting, rebuilt from the same archives.

  • Your star

    A real star in Puppis, 63.5 light-years away.

  • The world that day

    2 moments in history happened on your exact date.

  • Birthday twins

    12 well-known people share your birthday.

  • If someone had invested

    The stock market has grown about 99× since you arrived.

  • Who ran the country in 1964

    1 leaders were in office the day you arrived.

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