Rewinding to Wednesday, October 3, 1973…
Wednesday · Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Neve, you arrived on October 3, 1973 in Guelph.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 21°C in Guelph.
21°C/ 70°F high
Low of 11°C · dry
The sun rose at 7:20 am and set at 6:58 pm — 11h 38m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A first quarter watched over you.
46% lit · 7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Guelph that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Jupiter without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 404,153 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “We're An American Band”
by Grand Funk — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Let's Get It On”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1973-10-03
BREAD COSTS 7.3× 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
2,770 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 Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Water Ox
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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