Rewinding to Tuesday, May 22, 1979…
Tuesday · Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
The world on May 22, 1979 in Honolulu.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Honolulu…
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
9% lit · 26.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Honolulu that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 233,615 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Reunited”
by Peaches & Herb — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Heart Of Glass”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
HONOLULU · 1979-05-22
BREAD COSTS 4.7× 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
2,476 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
47 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Goat
Earth Goat
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Tuesday
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