Rewinding to Saturday 16 August 1975…
Saturday · Wellington, New Zealand
The world on 16 August 1975 in Wellington.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 10°C in Wellington.
10°C/ 49°F high
Low of 5°C · 0.3 mm of rain
The sun rose at 7:11 am and set at 5:39 pm — 10h 28m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
73% lit · 9.7 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above Wellington's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 387,763 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Jive Talkin'”
by Bee Gees — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “One Of These Nights”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
New Zealand’s shop prices from 1975 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. · 1975-08-16
BREAD COSTS 6.3× 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
2,673 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
51 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Wood Rabbit
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Saturday
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