Rewinding to Thursday 8 January 1942…
Thursday · Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Stephen, you arrived on 8 January 1942 in Oxford.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Oxford…
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
65% lit · 20.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Oxford that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 236,255 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
Before the charts began.
The weekly singles chart we use begins in August 1958 — your day predates it.
04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1942-01-08
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
4,426 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
84 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Metal Snake
Birthstone
Garnet
for your month
Birth flower
Carnation
for your month
Generation
Silent Generation
1928–1945
Day of the week
Thursday
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