Rewinding to Friday 12 May 1978…
Friday · Stockholm, Sweden
Malin, you arrived on 12 May 1978 in Stockholm.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 6°C in Stockholm.
6°C/ 42°F high
Low of 1°C · 2.3 mm of rain
The sun rose at 03:22 and set at 20:06 — 16h 44m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
27% lit · 5.1 days into its cycle
Looking up from Stockholm that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 404,938 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.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1978-05-12
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
2,530 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
48 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Taurus.
Star sign
Taurus
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Horse
Earth Horse
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Friday
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