Rewinding to Tuesday 25 May 1976…
Tuesday · Cork, Munster, Ireland
The world on 25 May 1976 in Cork.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was light drizzle in Cork.
15°C/ 58°F high
Low of 8°C · 0.4 mm of rain · wind up to 21 km/h
The sun rose at 4:26 am and set at 8:35 pm — 16h 8m 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.
9% lit · 26.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from Cork that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 405,255 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Silly Love Songs”
by Wings — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “Boogie Fever”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1976-05-25
BREAD COSTS 5.9× 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
2,632 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
50 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Dragon
Fire Dragon
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Tuesday
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