Rewinding to Sunday, June 24, 1979…
Sunday · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
The world on June 24, 1979 in Cambridge.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 72°F in Cambridge.
72°F/ 22°C high
Low of 57°F · dry
The sun rose at 5:08 am and set at 8:25 pm — 15h 17m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A new moon watched over you.
0% lit · 0.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Cambridge that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 246,594 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Hot Stuff”
by Donna Summer — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Love You Inside Out”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
CAMBRIDGE · 1979-06-24
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
2,472 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
47 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Cancer.
Star sign
Cancer
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Goat
Earth Goat
Birthstone
Pearl
for your month
Birth flower
Rose
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Sunday
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