Rewinding to Saturday, May 1, 2004…
Saturday · Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
The world on May 1, 2004 in Norwalk.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 61°F in Norwalk.
61°F/ 16°C high
Low of 49°F · dry · wind up to 11 mph
The sun rose at 5:50 am and set at 7:51 pm — 14h 0m 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 waxing gibbous watched over you.
89% lit · 11.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Norwalk that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 232,027 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Yeah!”
by Usher Featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks, taking over from “Slow Jamz”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
NORWALK · 2004-05-01
BREAD COSTS 1.9× 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
1,175 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
22 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Taurus.
Star sign
Taurus
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Monkey
Wood Monkey
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Saturday
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