Rewinding to Sunday 1 August 1965…
Sunday · Reading, England, United Kingdom
The world on 1 August 1965 in Reading.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was drizzle in Reading.
18°C/ 64°F high
Low of 9°C · 1.1 mm of rain · wind up to 12 mph
The sun rose at 04:27 and set at 19:51 — 15h 25m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
25% lit · 4.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Reading that evening, you could have spotted Venus and Mars without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 232,005 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction”
by The Rolling Stones — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
United Kingdom’s shop prices from 1965 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. · 1965-08-01
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
3,197 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
61 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Wood Snake
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Sunday
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