Rewinding to Wednesday 31 January 1973…
Wednesday · Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Portia, you arrived 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.
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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