Rewinding to Tuesday, July 11, 1972…
Tuesday · Oceanside, New York, United States
The world on July 11, 1972 in Oceanside.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 84°F in Oceanside.
84°F/ 29°C high
Low of 64°F · 0.07 in of rain
The sun rose at 5:33 am and set at 8:26 pm — 14h 53m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
2% lit · 1.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Oceanside that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 233,210 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Lean On Me”
by Bill Withers — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Song Sung Blue”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
OCEANSIDE · 1972-07-11
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
2,834 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
54 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Cancer.
Star sign
Cancer
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Rat
Water Rat
Birthstone
Ruby
for your month
Birth flower
Larkspur
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Tuesday
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