Rewinding to Thursday, December 4, 1969…
Thursday · Brooklyn, New York, United States
Jay-Z, you arrived on December 4, 1969 in Brooklyn.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 36°F in Brooklyn.
36°F/ 2°C high
Low of 22°F · dry
The sun rose at 7:03 am and set at 4:28 pm — 9h 25m of daylight.
Estimated by NOAA’s 20th Century Reanalysis on a regional grid (about 100 km). Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.
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.
22% lit · 24.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Brooklyn that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 238,950 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Come Together/Something”
by The Beatles — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Wedding Bell Blues”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
BROOKLYN · 1969-12-04
BREAD COSTS 8.7× 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
2,970 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
56 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Sagittarius.
Star sign
Sagittarius
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Rooster
Earth Rooster
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Thursday
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