Rewinding to Wednesday, November 12, 1980…
Wednesday · London, Ontario, Canada
The world on November 12, 1980 in London.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was overcast in London.
4°C/ 40°F high
Low of -2°C · dry · wind up to 15 km/h
The sun rose at 7:13 am and set at 5:03 pm — 9h 50m of daylight.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
24% lit · 4.8 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above London's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 389,972 km 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
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1980-11-12
BREAD COSTS 3.5× 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
2,399 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
45 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Scorpio.
Star sign
Scorpio
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Metal Monkey
Birthstone
Topaz
for your month
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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