Rewinding to Wednesday, October 20, 1971…
Wednesday · Long Beach, California, United States
Snoop, you arrived on October 20, 1971 in Long Beach.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 80°F in Long Beach.
80°F/ 27°C high
Low of 55°F · dry
The sun rose at 7:01 am and set at 6:13 pm — 11h 12m of daylight.
Measured at the Los angeles downtown/UsC weather station, 5 km away (NOAA GHCN-Daily). Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
3% lit · 1.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from Long Beach that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 251,033 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Maggie May/Reason To Believe”
by Rod Stewart — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “Go Away Little Girl”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
LONG BEACH · 1971-10-20
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
2,872 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
55 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Pig
Metal Pig
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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