Rewinding to Wednesday 28 July 1971…
Wednesday · Samarra, Salah ad Din, Iraq
Abu, you arrived 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.
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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