Rewinding to Sunday 2 March 1980…
Sunday · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Rebel, you arrived on 2 March 1980 in Sydney.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 28°C in Sydney.
28°C/ 82°F high
Low of 21°C · dry
The sun rose at 5:43 am and set at 6:30 pm — 12h 47m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A full moon watched over you.
100% lit · 15.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Sydney that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 405,898 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
by Queen — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Do That To Me One More Time”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1980-03-02
BREAD COSTS 3.6× 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
2,436 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
46 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Pisces.
Star sign
Pisces
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Metal Monkey
Birthstone
Aquamarine
for your month
Birth flower
Daffodil
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Sunday
And so much more you’d never guess or remember.
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