Rewinding to Saturday 28 January 1978…
Saturday · Bootle, England, United Kingdom
Jamie, you arrived on 28 January 1978 in Bootle.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was light snow in Bootle.
5°C/ 41°F high
Low of 4°C · 20.1 mm of rain · wind up to 23 mph
The sun rose at 08:03 and set at 16:46 — 8h 42m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
81% lit · 19 days into its cycle
Looking up from Bootle that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 241,388 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Baby Come Back”
by Player — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “How Deep Is Your Love”.
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04What a pound bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN UNITED KINGDOM · 1978-01-28
Measured shop prices
Prices: Office for National Statistics (UK)
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
2,545 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
48 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Aquarius.
Star sign
Aquarius
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Fire Snake
Birthstone
Garnet
for your month
Birth flower
Carnation
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Saturday
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