Rewinding to Friday, December 5, 1975…
Friday · Los Angeles, California, United States
Paula, you arrived on December 5, 1975 in Los Angeles.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 61°F in Los Angeles.
61°F/ 16°C high
Low of 53°F · dry
The sun rose at 6:43 am and set at 4:43 pm — 10h 0m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
12% lit · 3.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Los Angeles that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 240,150 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Fly, Robin, Fly”
by Silver Convention — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “That's The Way (I Like It)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
LOS ANGELES · 1975-12-05
BREAD COSTS 6.1× 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
2,657 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
50 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Sagittarius.
Star sign
Sagittarius
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Wood Rabbit
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Friday
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