Rewinding to Monday 7 October 1968…
Monday · Wellingborough, England, United Kingdom
The world on 7 October 1968 in Wellingborough.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was overcast in Wellingborough.
14°C/ 57°F high
Low of 8°C · dry · wind up to 10 mph
The sun rose at 06:13 and set at 17:25 — 11h 12m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
98% lit · 16 days into its cycle
Looking up from Wellingborough that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 247,467 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Hey Jude”
by The Beatles — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 9 weeks, taking over from “Harper Valley P.T.A.”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
United Kingdom’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. · 1968-10-07
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
3,030 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
58 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Monday's child, under Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Earth Monkey
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Monday
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