Rewinding to Thursday 15 July 1976…
Thursday · Algermissen, Lower Saxony, Germany
The world on 15 July 1976 in Algermissen.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was light drizzle in Algermissen.
26°C/ 78°F high
Low of 15°C · 0.4 mm of rain · wind up to 9 km/h
The sun rose at 04:16 and set at 20:34 — 16h 18m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
81% lit · 19 days into its cycle
Looking up from Algermissen that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Uranus without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 396,236 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Afternoon Delight”
by Starland Vocal Band — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Silly Love Songs”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Germany’s shop prices from 1976 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. · 1976-07-15
BREAD COSTS 5.9× 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
2,625 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
50 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Cancer.
Star sign
Cancer
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Dragon
Fire Dragon
Birthstone
Ruby
for your month
Birth flower
Larkspur
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Thursday
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