Rewinding to Tuesday, August 26, 1980…
Tuesday · New York, United States
The world on August 26, 1980 in New York.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 89°F in New York.
89°F/ 32°C high
Low of 59°F · dry
The sun rose at 6:17 am and set at 7:37 pm — 13h 20m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
99% lit · 15.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from New York that evening, you could have spotted Mars without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 224,521 miles away — closer than usual, a supermoon.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Magic”
by Olivia Newton-John — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “It's Still Rock And Roll To Me”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
NEW YORK · 1980-08-26
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
2,410 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 Virgo.
Star sign
Virgo
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Metal Monkey
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Tuesday
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