Rewinding to Wednesday 21 May 1980…
Wednesday · Bruges, Flanders, Belgium
The world on 21 May 1980 in Bruges.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Bruges…
02The sky that night
A first quarter watched over you.
50% lit · 7.4 days into its cycle
Looking up from Bruges that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 400,470 km 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
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1980-05-21
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
2,424 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
46 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Metal Monkey
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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