Rewinding to Tuesday, June 26, 1984…

Tuesday · Wilmington, Delaware, United States

The world on June 26, 1984 in Wilmington.

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01The weather outside

A high of 74°F in Wilmington.

74°F/ 23°C high

Low of 57°F · dry · wind up to 11 mph

The sun rose at 5:35 am and set at 8:34 pm — 14h 58m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A waning crescent watched over you.

5% lit · 27.4 days into its cycle

Looking up from Wilmington that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.

It was summer in your half of the world.

The Moon was 238,626 miles away, right about average.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “The Reflex”

by Duran Duran — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Time After Time”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

WILMINGTON · 1984-06-26

ITEM1984TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.54$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.90$2.27Gallon of milkwhole≈$1.27$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.23$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$2.60$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$3.35$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$80,700$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.20$0.78

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

2,210 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

42 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Tuesday's child, under Cancer.

Star sign

Cancer

Water sign

Chinese zodiac

Rat

Wood Rat

Birthstone

Pearl

for your month

Birth flower

Rose

for your month

Generation

Millennials

1981–1996

Day of the week

Tuesday

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