Rewinding to Saturday, March 28, 1970…
Saturday · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
The world on March 28, 1970 in Minneapolis.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 25°F in Minneapolis.
25°F/ -4°C high
Low of 11°F · dry
The sun rose at 6:01 am and set at 6:35 pm — 12h 34m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
65% lit · 20.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Minneapolis that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 234,117 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
by Simon & Garfunkel — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks, taking over from “Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin/Everybody Is A Star”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
MINNEAPOLIS · 1970-03-28
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
2,954 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
56 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Dog
Metal Dog
Birthstone
Aquamarine
for your month
Birth flower
Daffodil
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Saturday
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