Rewinding to Tuesday, December 24, 1974…
Tuesday · Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Ryan, you arrived on December 24, 1974 in Atlanta.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 63°F in Atlanta.
63°F/ 17°C high
Low of 51°F · 1.17 in of rain
The sun rose at 7:39 am and set at 5:34 pm — 9h 55m of daylight.
Measured at the Atlanta hartsField-JacksOn int weather station, 14 km away (NOAA GHCN-Daily). Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
80% lit · 10.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Atlanta that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 239,203 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Cat's In The Cradle”
by Harry Chapin — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Kung Fu Fighting”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
ATLANTA · 1974-12-24
BREAD COSTS 6.5× 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
2,706 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
51 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Wood Tiger
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Tuesday
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