Rewinding to Wednesday, August 1, 1979…
Wednesday · Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
The world on August 1, 1979 in Honolulu.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was light drizzle in Honolulu.
80°F/ 26°C high
Low of 74°F · 0.03 in of rain · wind up to 17 mph
The sun rose at 6:04 am and set at 7:10 pm — 13h 6m of daylight.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
61% lit · 8.4 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above Honolulu's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 240,213 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Bad Girls”
by Donna Summer — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “Ring My Bell”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
HONOLULU · 1979-08-01
BREAD COSTS 4.6× 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
2,466 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
47 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Goat
Earth Goat
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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