Rewinding to Saturday 1 May 1982…
Saturday · Holywood, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Jamie, you arrived on 1 May 1982 in Holywood.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 7°C in Holywood.
7°C/ 45°F high
Low of 4°C · 0.6 mm of precipitation · wind up to 30 mph
The sun rose at 05:45 and set at 20:56 — 15h 11m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
65% lit · 8.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from Holywood that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 235,904 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “I Love Rock 'N Roll”
by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks, taking over from “Centerfold”.
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04What a pound bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN UNITED KINGDOM · 1982-05-01
Measured shop prices
Prices: Office for National Statistics (UK)
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
2,323 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
44 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Taurus.
Star sign
Taurus
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Dog
Water Dog
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Saturday
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