Rewinding to Saturday, March 30, 1968…
Saturday · Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada
The world on March 30, 1968 in Charlemagne.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 14°C in Charlemagne.
14°C/ 58°F high
Low of 3°C · dry
The sun rose at 5:37 am and set at 6:19 pm — 12h 42m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
4% lit · 1.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Charlemagne that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 404,033 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay”
by Otis Redding — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Love Is Blue (L'amour Est Bleu)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Canada’s shop prices from 1968 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. · 1968-03-30
BREAD COSTS 9.6× 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
3,058 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
58 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Earth Monkey
Birthstone
Aquamarine
for your month
Birth flower
Daffodil
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Saturday
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