Rewinding to Tuesday, October 17, 1972…
Tuesday · Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States
Eminem, you arrived on October 17, 1972 in Saint Joseph.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was drizzle in Saint Joseph.
52°F/ 11°C high
Low of 41°F · 0.08 in of rain · wind up to 12 mph
The sun rose at 6:32 am and set at 5:37 pm — 11h 5m of daylight.
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.
75% lit · 9.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from Saint Joseph that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 236,535 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Ben”
by Michael Jackson — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
SAINT JOSEPH · 1972-10-17
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
2,820 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles travelled
54 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Rat
Water Rat
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Tuesday
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