Rewinding to Tuesday 27 November 1973…
Tuesday · Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
The world on 27 November 1973 in Pretoria.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 29°C in Pretoria.
29°C/ 84°F high
Low of 18°C · 3.2 mm of rain
The sun rose at 05:07 and set at 18:42 — 13h 34m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
8% lit · 2.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Pretoria that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Jupiter without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 405,654 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Photograph”
by Ringo Starr — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Keep On Truckin' (Part 1)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1973-11-27
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
2,762 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
52 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Sagittarius.
Star sign
Sagittarius
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Water Ox
Birthstone
Topaz
for your month
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Tuesday
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