Rewinding to Saturday, August 28, 1965…
Saturday · Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Shania, you arrived on August 28, 1965 in Windsor.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 27°C in Windsor.
27°C/ 81°F high
Low of 11°C · 1.7 mm of rain
The sun rose at 6:52 am and set at 8:12 pm — 13h 20m 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 waxing crescent watched over you.
7% lit · 2.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from Windsor that evening, you could have spotted Venus and Mars without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 368,020 km away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “I Got You Babe”
by Sonny & Cher — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “I'm Henry VIII, I Am”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1965-08-28
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
3,193 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
61 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Virgo.
Star sign
Virgo
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Wood Snake
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Saturday
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