Rewinding to Monday, May 29, 1972…
Monday · Mobile, Alabama, United States
Laverne, you arrived on May 29, 1972 in Mobile.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Mobile…
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
97% lit · 16.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Mobile that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 248,179 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Oh Girl”
by The Chi-lites — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
MOBILE · 1972-05-29
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
2,840 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
54 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Monday'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
Monday
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