Rewinding to Tuesday, April 8, 1980…

Tuesday · Portland, Oregon, United States

Katee, you arrived on April 8, 1980 in Portland.

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01The weather outside

A high of 59°F in Portland.

59°F/ 15°C high

Low of 44°F · 0.25 in of rain

The sun rose at 5:37 am and set at 6:48 pm — 13h 11m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A last quarter watched over you.

42% lit · 22.9 days into its cycle

Looking up from Portland that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.

It was spring in your half of the world.

The Moon was 234,005 miles away, right about average.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)”

by Pink Floyd — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PORTLAND · 1980-04-08

ITEM1980TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.51$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.80$2.27Gallon of milkwhole≈$0.99$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.26$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$3.21$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$3.10$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$64,000$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.15$0.78

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

2,430 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

46 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Tuesday's child, under Aries.

Star sign

Aries

Fire sign

Chinese zodiac

Monkey

Metal Monkey

Birthstone

Diamond

for your month

Birth flower

Daisy

for your month

Generation

Generation X

1965–1980

Day of the week

Tuesday

And so much more you’d never guess or remember.

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