Rewinding to Wednesday 17 December 1975…
Wednesday · Kyiv, Ukraine
The world on 17 December 1975 in Kyiv.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 1°C in Kyiv.
1°C/ 33°F high
Low of -5°C · 1.7 mm of rain
The sun rose at 08:53 and set at 16:54 — 8h 1m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A full moon watched over you.
99% lit · 13.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Kyiv that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 387,924 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Fly, Robin, Fly”
by Silver Convention — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “That's The Way (I Like It)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Ukraine’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. · 1975-12-17
BREAD COSTS 6.1× 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
2,655 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
50 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Sagittarius.
Star sign
Sagittarius
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Wood Rabbit
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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