Rewinding to Sunday, May 12, 1968…
Sunday · San Diego, California, United States
The world on May 12, 1968 in San Diego.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 62°F in San Diego.
62°F/ 17°C high
Low of 50°F · 0.01 in of rain
The sun rose at 5:51 am and set at 7:38 pm — 13h 47m of daylight.
Measured at the PresA rodriguez weather station, 12 km away (NOAA GHCN-Daily). 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 full moon watched over you.
99% lit · 15.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from San Diego that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 221,947 miles away — closer than usual, a supermoon.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Honey”
by Bobby Goldsboro — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
SAN DIEGO · 1968-05-12
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
3,051 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
58 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Taurus.
Star sign
Taurus
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Earth Monkey
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Sunday
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