Rewinding to Saturday 13 September 1969…
Saturday · Fern Tree Gully, Victoria, Australia
Shane, you arrived on 13 September 1969 in Fern Tree Gully.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 11°C in Fern Tree Gully.
11°C/ 52°F high
Low of 6°C · 0.5 mm of rain
The sun rose at 6:23 am and set at 6:07 pm — 11h 44m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
3% lit · 1.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from Fern Tree Gully that evening, you could have spotted Mars without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 388,309 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Honky Tonk Women”
by The Rolling Stones — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “In The Year 2525”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1969-09-13
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
2,982 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
57 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Virgo.
Star sign
Virgo
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Rooster
Earth Rooster
Birthstone
Sapphire
for your month
Birth flower
Aster
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Saturday
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