Rewinding to Friday, August 4, 1961…
Friday · Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Barack, you arrived on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was light drizzle in Honolulu.
81°F/ 27°C high
Low of 76°F · dry · wind up to 17 mph
The sun rose at 6:06 am and set at 7:08 pm — 13h 3m of daylight.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
32% lit · 23.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Honolulu that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 243,555 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Tossin' And Turnin'”
by Bobby Lewis — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks, taking over from “Quarter To Three”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
HONOLULU · 1961-08-04
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
3,405 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles travelled
65 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Metal Ox
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Friday
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