Rewinding to Wednesday 19 October 1983…
Wednesday · Stockholm, Sweden
Rebecca, you arrived on 19 October 1983 in Stockholm.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 11°C in Stockholm.
11°C/ 51°F high
Low of 7°C · 5.0 mm of precipitation · wind up to 25 km/h
The sun rose at 06:33 and set at 16:31 — 9h 58m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
96% lit · 12.8 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above Stockholm's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 398,783 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Total Eclipse Of The Heart”
by Bonnie Tyler — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Tell Her About It”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1983-10-19
BREAD COSTS 3.4× 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
2,246 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
43 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Pig
Water Pig
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Wednesday
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