Rewinding to Wednesday 28 July 1971…
Wednesday · Samarra, Salah ad Din, Iraq
The world on 28 July 1971 in Samarra.
Outside
43°C, mostly clear
Moon
waxing crescent
#1 song
Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian)
01The weather outside
It was mostly clear in Samarra.
43°C/ 110°F high
Low of 30°C · dry · wind up to 26 km/h
The sun rose at 05:11 and set at 19:09 — 13h 58m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
34% lit · 5.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from Samarra that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Jupiter without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 404,544 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian)”
by The Raiders — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “It's Too Late/I Feel The Earth Move”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Iraq’s shop prices from 1971 aren’t in the records we use, so here is what the same basket cost in the US that day.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1971-07-28
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
2,884 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
55 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Pig
Metal Pig
Birthstone
Ruby
for your month
Birth flower
Larkspur
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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