Rewinding to Tuesday 15 October 1968…
Tuesday · Bayonne, New Aquitaine, France
Didier, you arrived on 15 October 1968 in Bayonne.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was light drizzle in Bayonne.
17°C/ 62°F high
Low of 14°C · 0.9 mm of rain · wind up to 11 km/h
The sun rose at 07:19 and set at 18:22 — 11h 3m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
38% lit · 23.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Bayonne that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 394,942 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. · 1968-10-15
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
3,029 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
58 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday'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
Tuesday
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