Rewinding to Wednesday 26 July 1967…
Wednesday · Shirebrook, England, United Kingdom
The world on 26 July 1967 in Shirebrook.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 16°C in Shirebrook.
16°C/ 61°F high
Low of 13°C · dry
The sun rose at 05:10 and set at 21:10 — 16h 0m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
74% lit · 19.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from Shirebrook that evening, you could have spotted Venus and Mars without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 249,935 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Windy”
by The Association — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Groovin'”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
United Kingdom’s shop prices from 1967 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. · 1967-07-26
BREAD COSTS 10× 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
3,093 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
59 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Goat
Fire Goat
Birthstone
Ruby
for your month
Birth flower
Larkspur
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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