Rewinding to Tuesday, November 4, 1969…
Tuesday · Uvalde, Texas, United States
The world on November 4, 1969 in Uvalde.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was overcast in Uvalde.
69°F/ 20°C high
Low of 46°F · dry · wind up to 7 mph
The sun rose at 6:54 am and set at 5:50 pm — 10h 57m of daylight.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
24% lit · 24.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Uvalde that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 245,460 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Suspicious Minds”
by Elvis Presley — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “I Can't Get Next To You”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
UVALDE · 1969-11-04
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
2,974 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
57 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Scorpio.
Star sign
Scorpio
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Rooster
Earth Rooster
Birthstone
Topaz
for your month
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Tuesday
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