Rewinding to Thursday 13 April 1978…
Thursday · la Pobla de Segur, Catalonia, Spain
Carles, you arrived on 13 April 1978 in la Pobla de Segur.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in la Pobla de Segur…
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
33% lit · 5.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from la Pobla de Segur that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 404,171 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Night Fever”
by Bee Gees — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 8 weeks, taking over from “(Love Is) Thicker Than Water”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Spain’s shop prices from 1978 aren’t in the records we use, so here is what the same basket cost in the US that day.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1978-04-13
BREAD COSTS 5.2× 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
2,534 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
48 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Horse
Earth Horse
Birthstone
Diamond
for your month
Birth flower
Daisy
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Thursday
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