Rewinding to Friday 1 June 1973…
Friday · Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The world on 1 June 1973 in Bergisch Gladbach.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 20°C in Bergisch Gladbach.
20°C/ 68°F high
Low of 16°C · 14.6 mm of rain
The sun rose at 04:22 and set at 20:36 — 16h 14m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A new moon watched over you.
1% lit · 0.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from Bergisch Gladbach that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Venus, Uranus without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 357,623 km away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Frankenstein”
by Edgar Winter Group — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1973-06-01
BREAD COSTS 7.6× 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
2,788 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
53 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Water Ox
Birthstone
Pearl
for your month
Birth flower
Rose
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Friday
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