Rewinding to Thursday 14 October 1965…
Thursday · Middleton, England, United Kingdom
The world on 14 October 1965 in Middleton.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Middleton…
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
81% lit · 19 days into its cycle
Looking up from Middleton that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 234,305 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Yesterday”
by The Beatles — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Hang On Sloopy”.
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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. · 1965-10-14
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
3,186 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
61 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Wood Snake
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Thursday
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