Rewinding to Thursday, May 1, 1969…
Thursday · Houston, Texas, United States
Wes, you arrived on May 1, 1969 in Houston.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 76°F in Houston.
76°F/ 24°C high
Low of 62°F · 0.01 in of rain
The sun rose at 6:38 am and set at 7:58 pm — 13h 19m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A full moon watched over you.
100% lit · 14.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from Houston that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 228,074 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)”
by The 5th Dimension — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks, taking over from “Dizzy”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
HOUSTON · 1969-05-01
BREAD COSTS 9.2× 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
3,001 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
57 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Taurus.
Star sign
Taurus
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Rooster
Earth Rooster
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Thursday
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