Rewinding to Sunday, September 11, 1977…
Sunday · Champaign, Illinois, United States
Ludacris, you arrived on September 11, 1977 in Champaign.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 75°F in Champaign.
75°F/ 24°C high
Low of 49°F · dry
The sun rose at 6:30 am and set at 7:08 pm — 12h 38m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
2% lit · 28.2 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above Champaign's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 238,936 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Best Of My Love”
by The Emotions — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “I Just Want To Be Your Everything”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
CHAMPAIGN · 1977-09-11
BREAD COSTS 5.5× 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
2,565 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
49 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Virgo.
Star sign
Virgo
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Fire Snake
Birthstone
Sapphire
for your month
Birth flower
Aster
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Sunday
And so much more you’d never guess or remember.
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