Rewinding to Tuesday 13 March 1973…
Tuesday · Paramaribo, Suriname
Edgar, you arrived on 13 March 1973 in Paramaribo.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Paramaribo…
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
73% lit · 9.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Paramaribo that evening, you could have spotted Saturn and Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 372,988 km away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Killing Me Softly With His Song”
by Roberta Flack — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “Crocodile Rock”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1973-03-13
BREAD COSTS 7.6× 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
2,799 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
53 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Pisces.
Star sign
Pisces
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Water Ox
Birthstone
Aquamarine
for your month
Birth flower
Daffodil
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Tuesday
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