Rewinding to Tuesday 14 August 1973…
Tuesday · Enugu, Nigeria
The world on 14 August 1973 in Enugu.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 29°C in Enugu.
29°C/ 84°F high
Low of 22°C · 3.5 mm of rain
The sun rose at 06:24 and set at 18:44 — 12h 20m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A full moon watched over you.
99% lit · 15.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Enugu that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 394,036 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “The Morning After”
by Maureen McGovern — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Nigeria’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. · 1973-08-14
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
2,777 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 Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Water Ox
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Tuesday
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