Rewinding to Sunday 28 December 1969…
Sunday · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
The world on 28 December 1969 in Helsinki.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 1°C in Helsinki.
1°C/ 33°F high
Low of -3°C · dry
The sun rose at 09:25 and set at 15:18 — 5h 53m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
79% lit · 19.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Helsinki that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 404,012 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Someday We'll Be Together”
by Diana Ross & The Supremes — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Leaving On A Jet Plane”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Finland’s shop prices from 1969 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. · 1969-12-28
BREAD COSTS 8.7× 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
2,967 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
56 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Rooster
Earth Rooster
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Sunday
And so much more you’d never guess or remember.
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