Rewinding to Sunday, January 25, 1981…
Sunday · New York, United States
Alicia, you arrived on January 25, 1981 in New York.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 37°F in New York.
37°F/ 3°C high
Low of 25°F · dry · wind up to 13 mph
The sun rose at 7:12 am and set at 5:05 pm — 9h 53m of daylight.
Daily estimates from NASA POWER on a regional grid, using local solar days. Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
69% lit · 20.3 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above New York's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 250,023 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “(Just Like) Starting Over”
by John Lennon — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “Lady”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
NEW YORK · 1981-01-25
BREAD COSTS 3.4× 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
2,388 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
45 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Aquarius.
Star sign
Aquarius
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Metal Monkey
Birthstone
Garnet
for your month
Birth flower
Carnation
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Sunday
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