Rewinding to Wednesday, June 27, 1984…
Wednesday · Los Angeles, California, United States
The world on June 27, 1984 in Los Angeles.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 92°F in Los Angeles.
92°F/ 33°C high
Low of 67°F · dry · wind up to 11 mph
The sun rose at 5:43 am and set at 8:08 pm — 14h 25m 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 waning crescent watched over you.
1% lit · 28.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Los Angeles that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 235,310 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
LOS ANGELES · 1984-06-27
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 Wednesday'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
Wednesday
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