Rewinding to Sunday, May 21, 1972…
Sunday · Brooklyn, New York, United States
The world on May 21, 1972 in Brooklyn.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 74°F in Brooklyn.
74°F/ 24°C high
Low of 51°F · 0.04 in of rain
The sun rose at 5:33 am and set at 8:11 pm — 14h 38m of daylight.
Estimated by NOAA’s 20th Century Reanalysis on a regional grid (about 100 km). 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 gibbous watched over you.
69% lit · 9.2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Brooklyn that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 248,643 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”
by Roberta Flack — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks, taking over from “A Horse With No Name”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
BROOKLYN · 1972-05-21
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
2,841 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
54 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Rat
Water Rat
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Sunday
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