Rewinding to Tuesday 9 June 1981…
Tuesday · Jerusalem, Israel
Natalie, you arrived on 9 June 1981 in Jerusalem.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 35°C in Jerusalem.
35°C/ 95°F high
Low of 18°C · dry · wind up to 20 km/h
The sun rose at 04:33 and set at 18:43 — 14h 10m 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 first quarter watched over you.
53% lit · 7.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Jerusalem that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 395,974 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Bette Davis Eyes”
by Kim Carnes — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 9 weeks, taking over from “Morning Train (Nine To Five)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1981-06-09
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
2,369 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
45 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Rooster
Metal Rooster
Birthstone
Pearl
for your month
Birth flower
Rose
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Tuesday
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