Rewinding to Tuesday, February 3, 1976…
Tuesday · San Juan, Puerto Rico
The world on February 3, 1976 in San Juan.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in San Juan…
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
13% lit · 3.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from San Juan that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 250,959 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Love Rollercoaster”
by Ohio Players — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Puerto Rico’s shop prices from 1976 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. · 1976-02-03
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
2,648 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
50 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Aquarius.
Star sign
Aquarius
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Dragon
Fire Dragon
Birthstone
Amethyst
for your month
Birth flower
Violet
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Tuesday
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