Rewinding to Monday, February 12, 1968…
Monday · Santa Monica, California, United States
The world on February 12, 1968 in Santa Monica.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 58°F in Santa Monica.
58°F/ 14°C high
Low of 45°F · 0.02 in of rain
The sun rose at 6:42 am and set at 5:34 pm — 10h 52m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
98% lit · 13.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Santa Monica that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Uranus without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 237,249 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Love Is Blue (L'amour Est Bleu)”
by Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “Green Tambourine”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
SANTA MONICA · 1968-02-12
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
3,064 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
58 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Monday's child, under Aquarius.
Star sign
Aquarius
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Earth Monkey
Birthstone
Amethyst
for your month
Birth flower
Violet
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Monday
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