Rewinding to Tuesday, May 22, 1979…

Tuesday · Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Maggie, you arrived on May 22, 1979 in Honolulu.

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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

ITEM1979TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb≈$0.39$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large≈$0.48$2.27Gallon of milkwhole≈$0.87$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$0.84$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast≈$1.98$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$2.90$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$63,100$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.15$0.78

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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