Rewinding to Saturday 8 August 1981…
Saturday · Basel, Switzerland
The world on 8 August 1981 in Basel.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 23°C in Basel.
23°C/ 73°F high
Low of 17°C · 8.3 mm of precipitation · wind up to 8 km/h
The sun rose at 06:15 and set at 20:53 — 14h 38m 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.
59% lit · 8.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Basel that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 404,155 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Jessie's Girl”
by Rick Springfield — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “The One That You Love”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1981-08-08
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
2,361 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
45 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Rooster
Metal Rooster
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Saturday
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