Rewinding to Saturday 16 December 1967…
Saturday · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Miranda, you arrived on 16 December 1967 in Brisbane.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 29°C in Brisbane.
29°C/ 85°F high
Low of 19°C · dry
The sun rose at 4:47 am and set at 6:39 pm — 13h 52m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A full moon watched over you.
100% lit · 14.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Brisbane that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 400,058 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Daydream Believer”
by The Monkees — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Incense And Peppermints”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Australia’s shop prices from 1967 aren’t in the records we use, so here is what the same basket cost in the US that day.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1967-12-16
BREAD COSTS 9.6× 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
3,073 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
58 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Sagittarius.
Star sign
Sagittarius
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Goat
Fire Goat
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Saturday
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