Rewinding to Sunday 17 February 1963…
Sunday · Tainan, Taiwan, Taiwan
Jensen, you arrived on 17 February 1963 in Tainan.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 22°C in Tainan.
22°C/ 72°F high
Low of 16°C · dry
The sun rose at 06:30 and set at 17:56 — 11h 25m of daylight.
Estimated by NOAA’s 20th Century Reanalysis on a regional grid (about 100 km). Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A last quarter watched over you.
42% lit · 22.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Tainan that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Uranus without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 397,979 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Hey Paula”
by Paul and Paula — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Walk Right In”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1963-02-17
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
3,324 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
63 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Aquarius.
Star sign
Aquarius
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Water Rabbit
Birthstone
Amethyst
for your month
Birth flower
Violet
for your month
Generation
Baby Boomers
1946–1964
Day of the week
Sunday
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