Rewinding to Friday, April 16, 1971…
Friday · Lake Jackson, Texas, United States
Selena, you arrived on April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was rain in Lake Jackson.
75°F/ 24°C high
Low of 67°F · 0.24 in of rain · wind up to 20 mph
The sun rose at 5:55 am and set at 6:48 pm — 12h 53m of daylight.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
65% lit · 20.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Lake Jackson that evening, you could have spotted Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 238,308 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)”
by The Temptations — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Me And Bobby McGee”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
LAKE JACKSON · 1971-04-16
BREAD COSTS 8.3× 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
2,899 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
55 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Pig
Metal Pig
Birthstone
Diamond
for your month
Birth flower
Daisy
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Friday
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