Rewinding to Wednesday 31 January 1973…
Wednesday · Horsham, Victoria, Australia
The world on 31 January 1973 in Horsham.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Horsham…
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
9% lit · 26.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from Horsham that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 400,924 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Superstition”
by Stevie Wonder — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “You're So Vain”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Australia’s shop prices from 1973 aren’t in the records we use, so here is what the same basket cost in the US that day.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1973-01-31
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
2,805 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
53 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Aquarius.
Star sign
Aquarius
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Rat
Water Rat
Birthstone
Garnet
for your month
Birth flower
Carnation
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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