Rewinding to Tuesday 7 August 1979…
Tuesday · Paraćin Old Town, Central Serbia, Serbia
The world on 7 August 1979 in Paraćin Old Town.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 30°C in Paraćin Old Town.
30°C/ 86°F high
Low of 10°C · dry
The sun rose at 04:28 and set at 18:51 — 14h 23m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A full moon watched over you.
100% lit · 14.4 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above Paraćin Old Town's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 358,633 km away — closer than usual, a supermoon.
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.
Serbia’s shop prices from 1979 aren’t in the records we use, so here is what the same basket cost in the US that day.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1979-08-07
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
2,465 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
47 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday'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
Tuesday
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