Rewinding to Saturday 12 October 1968…
Saturday · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Hugh, you arrived on 12 October 1968 in Sydney.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 20°C in Sydney.
20°C/ 67°F high
Low of 12°C · dry
The sun rose at 5:18 am and set at 6:05 pm — 12h 48m of daylight.
Measured at the Sydney (ObsErvatory hill) weather station (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 waning gibbous watched over you.
70% lit · 20.2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Sydney that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 404,816 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Hey Jude”
by The Beatles — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 9 weeks, taking over from “Harper Valley P.T.A.”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1968-10-12
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
3,030 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 Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Earth Monkey
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Saturday
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