Rewinding to Wednesday 5 February 1969…
Wednesday · Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
Michael, you arrived on 5 February 1969 in Newport.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Newport…
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
89% lit · 17.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Newport that evening, you could have spotted Venus and Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 240,684 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Crimson And Clover”
by Tommy James And The Shondells — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1969-02-05
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
3,013 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
57 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday'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
Wednesday
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