Rewinding to Sunday, April 12, 1981…
Sunday · Leloaloa, Eastern District, American Samoa
The world on April 12, 1981 in Leloaloa.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 82°F in Leloaloa.
82°F/ 28°C high
Low of 81°F · 0.38 in of precipitation · wind up to 11 mph
The sun rose at 6:29 am and set at 6:17 pm — 11h 49m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
69% lit · 9.2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Leloaloa that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 241,760 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Kiss On My List”
by Daryl Hall John Oates — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Rapture”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1981-04-12
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
2,378 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 Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Rooster
Metal Rooster
Birthstone
Diamond
for your month
Birth flower
Daisy
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Sunday
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