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What you'll find inside a day
From one real record — 23 Jun 1964Every record is different. These are six pages from one real record.
What Hubble saw on his birthdays
While he cut the cake, Hubble was taking these.
NASA keeps a handful of Hubble observations for each day of the year. These 5 were taken on June 23, from 1996 to 2020.
The traditions of his date
A Cancer, born in the Year of the Dragon.
Star sign
Cancer
A water sign, ruled by the Moon.
Chinese year
Dragon
Its element is Yang Wood.
Birthstone
Pearl
June’s stone.
Birth flower
Rose
June’s flower.
“Tuesday’s child is full of grace”
Born on a Tuesday, on the third day of Cancer, which runs 21 June to 22 July.
The sky over Greenwich · 12:30 PM
Every star was still there, behind the daylight.
At 12:30 PM the sun stood high in the south. Up there too, unseen: Sirius, Capella, Rigel, Procyon, Betelgeuse and Aldebaran.
The No. 1 on every birthday
At 1, the Byrds. At 60, Sabrina Carpenter.
- 1Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds1965
- 16Coming Up (Live At Glasgow) Paul McCartney And Wings1980
- 18Ebony And Ivory Paul McCartney And Stevie Wonder1982
- 21Heaven Bryan Adams1985
- 30I Swear All-4-One1994
- 40Burn Usher2004
- 50Fancy Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX2014
- 60Please Please Please Sabrina Carpenter2024
Each is the No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated in his birthday's week: 62 birthdays, 62 songs.
What arrived, and how old he was
The Internet came when he was 5. The smartphone, at 43.
Turned 5 · 1969
The Internet
ARPANET sent its first message between computers.
Turned 15 · 1979
The Walkman
Music became personal and portable.
Turned 18 · 1982
The Compact Disc
Digital audio replaced the record and the tape.
Turned 25 · 1989
The World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee linked the internet into pages.
At 37 · 2001
The iPod
A thousand songs in your pocket.
At 43 · 2007
The Smartphone
The iPhone put the internet in everyone's hand.
His book lists 17 arrivals, each with the age he was when it came.
The presidents of his lifetime
12 presidencies, and his age at each.
Lyndon B. Johnson was in office the day he was born; Donald Trump returned to office when he was 60.
Every record holds dozens of these, from the sky that minute to the songs of every birthday.
Look up your own date →Hubble images: NASA, ESA, public domain · Presidential portraits: official photographs, public domain (US Government works) · Songs: the Billboard Hot 100
Then keep it, any way you like
Same record, every formatEvery record of the day, bound in linen.
June 23,
1964
Play
The day as a five-scene film.
The record of
Tuesday,
June 23, 1964
Sunrise5:22 AM
On the radioChapel of Love
A stamp5¢
The moon96%
41°01′ N · 73°37′ W
The day's record, framed.
To be opened 23 Jun 2034
A life, in moments: shared by link, or sent on a day you choose.
1964
5¢
A first-class stamp
1964 — What things cost
A deck of their year: songs, prices, headlines.
23 Jun 1964
Sunrise5:22 AM
On the radioChapel of Love
A stamp5¢
Only once.
The day's figures, around your coffee.
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