Rewinding to Wednesday, October 29, 1980…
Wednesday · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Ben, you arrived on October 29, 1980 in Boston.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 52°F in Boston.
52°F/ 11°C high
Low of 36°F · dry
The sun rose at 6:14 am and set at 4:41 pm — 10h 27m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A last quarter watched over you.
56% lit · 21.6 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above Boston's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 240,018 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Woman In Love”
by Barbra Streisand — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Another One Bites The Dust”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
BOSTON · 1980-10-29
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
2,401 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
46 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Scorpio.
Star sign
Scorpio
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Metal Monkey
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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