Rewinding to Monday, January 28, 1980…
Monday · Jamestown, New York, United States
Nick, you arrived on January 28, 1980 in Jamestown.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Jamestown…
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
91% lit · 11.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Jamestown that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Jupiter without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 242,666 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Rock With You”
by Michael Jackson — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
JAMESTOWN · 1980-01-28
BREAD COSTS 3.7× 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
2,440 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
46 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Monday's child, under Aquarius.
Star sign
Aquarius
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Goat
Earth Goat
Birthstone
Garnet
for your month
Birth flower
Carnation
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Monday
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