Rewinding to Monday 27 September 1965…
Monday · Beirut, Lebanon
Steve, you arrived on 27 September 1965 in Beirut.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 28°C in Beirut.
28°C/ 82°F high
Low of 15°C · dry
The sun rose at 05:29 and set at 17:28 — 11h 59m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
9% lit · 2.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Beirut that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 378,570 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Eve Of Destruction”
by Barry McGuire — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Help!”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1965-09-27
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
3,188 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
61 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Monday's child, under Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Wood Snake
Birthstone
Sapphire
for your month
Birth flower
Aster
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Monday
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