Rewinding to Wednesday 21 October 1981…
Wednesday · Užice, Central Serbia, Serbia
Nemanja, you arrived on 21 October 1981 in Užice.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 21°C in Užice.
21°C/ 70°F high
Low of 9°C · 0.3 mm of precipitation · wind up to 11 km/h
The sun rose at 06:02 and set at 16:47 — 10h 45m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
32% lit · 23.9 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above Užice's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 383,845 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)”
by Christopher Cross — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Endless Love”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1981-10-21
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
2,350 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
45 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Rooster
Metal Rooster
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Wednesday
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