Rewinding to Saturday 25 March 1972…
Saturday · Haifa, Israel
The world on 25 March 1972 in Haifa.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 13°C in Haifa.
13°C/ 55°F high
Low of 5°C · dry
The sun rose at 05:37 and set at 17:55 — 12h 18m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
85% lit · 11 days into its cycle
Looking up from Haifa that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 393,147 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “A Horse With No Name”
by America — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Heart Of Gold”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Israel’s shop prices from 1972 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. · 1972-03-25
BREAD COSTS 8.0× 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
2,850 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
54 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Rat
Water Rat
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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