Rewinding to Saturday, April 26, 1980…
Saturday · Cullman, Alabama, United States
The world on April 26, 1980 in Cullman.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was rain in Cullman.
69°F/ 20°C high
Low of 59°F · 0.90 in of rain · wind up to 10 mph
The sun rose at 5:02 am and set at 6:27 pm — 13h 25m of daylight.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
91% lit · 11.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Cullman that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 252,110 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Call Me”
by Blondie — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks, taking over from “Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
CULLMAN · 1980-04-26
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
2,428 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
46 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Taurus.
Star sign
Taurus
Earth 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
Saturday
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