Rewinding to Sunday 21 November 1965…
Sunday · Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland
The world on 21 November 1965 in Reykjavik.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was snow in Reykjavik.
-1°C/ 31°F high
Low of -3°C · 10.5 mm of rain · wind up to 22 km/h
The sun rose at 10:14 and set at 16:12 — 5h 58m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
2% lit · 28.2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Reykjavik that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 382,867 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “I Hear A Symphony”
by The Supremes — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Get Off Of My Cloud”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Iceland’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. · 1965-11-21
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
3,181 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
60 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Scorpio.
Star sign
Scorpio
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Wood Snake
Birthstone
Topaz
for your month
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Sunday
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