Rewinding to Wednesday, March 24, 1976…
Wednesday · New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
The world on March 24, 1976 in New Orleans.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was light drizzle in New Orleans.
72°F/ 22°C high
Low of 57°F · dry · wind up to 17 mph
The sun rose at 5:59 am and set at 6:14 pm — 12h 15m of daylight.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
27% lit · 24.4 days into its cycle
Looking up from New Orleans that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Saturn without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 244,404 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)”
by The 4 Seasons — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Love Machine (Part 1)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
NEW ORLEANS · 1976-03-24
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
2,641 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
50 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Dragon
Fire Dragon
Birthstone
Aquamarine
for your month
Birth flower
Daffodil
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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