Rewinding to Tuesday 20 June 1978…

Tuesday · Romford, England, United Kingdom

The world on 20 June 1978 in Romford.

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01The weather outside

A high of 18°C in Romford.

18°C/ 65°F high

Low of 10°C · dry

The sun rose at 04:41 and set at 21:20 — 16h 39m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A full moon watched over you.

100% lit · 14.7 days into its cycle

Looking up from Romford that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.

It was summer in your half of the world.

The Moon was 222,502 miles away — closer than usual, a supermoon.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Shadow Dancing”

by Andy Gibb — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks, taking over from “You're The One That I Want”.

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04What a pound bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN UNITED KINGDOM · 1978-06-20

ITEM1978TODAYSliced white loaf800 g£0.26£1.44Litre of milkfresh£0.23£1.17Kilo of flourwheat£0.24£0.57Kilo of bananas1 kg£0.48£1.05Kilo of sugarwhite£0.28£1.18Kilo of chickenwhole£1.18£3.87

Measured shop prices

Prices: Office for National Statistics (UK)

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

2,524 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

48 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Tuesday's child, under Gemini.

Star sign

Gemini

Air sign

Chinese zodiac

Horse

Earth Horse

Birthstone

Pearl

for your month

Birth flower

Rose

for your month

Generation

Generation X

1965–1980

Day of the week

Tuesday

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