Rewinding to Monday 16 June 1980…
Monday · Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
The world on 16 June 1980 in Heilbronn.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 21°C in Heilbronn.
21°C/ 70°F high
Low of 13°C · dry
The sun rose at 05:17 and set at 21:30 — 16h 13m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
17% lit · 4 days into its cycle
Looking up from Heilbronn that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 392,630 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Funkytown”
by Lipps, Inc. — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Call Me”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Germany’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. · 1980-06-16
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
2,420 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
46 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Monday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Metal Monkey
Birthstone
Pearl
for your month
Birth flower
Rose
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Monday
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