Rewinding to Sunday 28 December 1969…
Sunday · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Linus, you arrived on 28 December 1969 in Helsinki.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 1°C in Helsinki.
1°C/ 33°F high
Low of -3°C · dry
The sun rose at 09:25 and set at 15:18 — 5h 53m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
79% lit · 19.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Helsinki that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 404,012 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Someday We'll Be Together”
by Diana Ross & The Supremes — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Leaving On A Jet Plane”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1969-12-28
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
2,967 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
56 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth 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
Sunday
And so much more you’d never guess or remember.
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