Rewinding to Wednesday 24 April 1968…
Wednesday · Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
The world on 24 April 1968 in Dublin.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 15°C in Dublin.
15°C/ 58°F high
Low of 5°C · dry
The sun rose at 6:05 am and set at 8:41 pm — 14h 36m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
7% lit · 27 days into its cycle
Looking up from Dublin that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 399,716 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Honey”
by Bobby Goldsboro — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1968-04-24
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
3,054 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
58 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Taurus.
Star sign
Taurus
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Earth Monkey
Birthstone
Diamond
for your month
Birth flower
Daisy
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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