Rewinding to Tuesday, November 1, 1960…
Tuesday · Mobile, Alabama, United States
Tim, you arrived on November 1, 1960 in Mobile.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was clear skies in Mobile.
68°F/ 20°C high
Low of 49°F · dry · wind up to 7 mph
The sun rose at 6:07 am and set at 5:04 pm — 10h 57m of daylight.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
98% lit · 13.4 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above Mobile's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 239,360 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Save The Last Dance For Me”
by The Drifters — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “I Want To Be Wanted”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
MOBILE · 1960-11-01
BREAD COSTS 11× 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
3,444 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
66 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Scorpio.
Star sign
Scorpio
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Rat
Metal Rat
Birthstone
Topaz
for your month
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Tuesday
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