Rewinding to Thursday 8 October 1970…
Thursday · Tooting, England, United Kingdom
The world on 8 October 1970 in Tooting.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 16°C in Tooting.
16°C/ 60°F high
Low of -1°C · dry
The sun rose at 07:11 and set at 18:23 — 11h 12m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A first quarter watched over you.
57% lit · 8.1 days into its cycle
Looking up from Tooting that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 231,382 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Ain't No Mountain High Enough”
by Diana Ross — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “War”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
United Kingdom’s shop prices from 1970 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. · 1970-10-08
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
2,926 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
56 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Dog
Metal Dog
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Thursday
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