Rewinding to Thursday, July 27, 1972…
Thursday · Gainesville, Florida, United States
The world on July 27, 1972 in Gainesville.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 96°F in Gainesville.
96°F/ 35°C high
Low of 75°F · 0.04 in of rain
The sun rose at 6:46 am and set at 8:25 pm — 13h 39m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
97% lit · 16.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Gainesville that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Uranus without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 236,347 miles away, right about average.
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
GAINESVILLE · 1972-07-27
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
2,832 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
54 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire 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
Thursday
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