Rewinding to Friday 21 March 1980…
Friday · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
The world on 21 March 1980 in Porto Alegre.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 32°C in Porto Alegre.
32°C/ 89°F high
Low of 22°C · 0.6 mm of rain
The sun rose at 06:29 and set at 18:34 — 12h 5m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
34% lit · 5.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from Porto Alegre that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 377,528 km away, right about average.
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.
Brazil’s shop prices from 1980 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. · 1980-03-21
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
2,433 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
46 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire 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
Friday
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