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Day One

Pick a day, ideally your birthday, and swipe through the world as it was.

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Sources

UK singles and albums charts: Official Charts Company, via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
US singles and albums charts: Billboard, via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
On this day, inventions: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); images: Wikimedia Commons
Films, TV, video games, technology, birthdays: Wikidata (CC0)
Prices and inflation: Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0)
Stamps: Royal Mail, via sendlettersonline.co.uk
Cinema tickets: UK Cinema Association; terramedia.co.uk
Population: World Bank (CC BY 4.0)
Birthstones: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); birth flowers: British Florist Association
Planets: NASA