Rewinding to Thursday, February 24, 1977…
Thursday · Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Floyd, you arrived on February 24, 1977 in Grand Rapids.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 40°F in Grand Rapids.
40°F/ 5°C high
Low of 36°F · 0.65 in of rain
The sun rose at 7:26 am and set at 6:25 pm — 10h 59m of daylight.
Estimated by NOAA’s 20th Century Reanalysis on a regional grid (about 100 km). 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 first quarter watched over you.
40% lit · 6.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Grand Rapids that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 251,249 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Blinded By The Light”
by Manfred Mann's Earth Band — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Torn Between Two Lovers”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
GRAND RAPIDS · 1977-02-24
BREAD COSTS 5.7× 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
2,593 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
49 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Pisces.
Star sign
Pisces
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Fire Snake
Birthstone
Amethyst
for your month
Birth flower
Violet
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Thursday
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