Rewinding to Saturday 15 September 1984…
Saturday · London, England, United Kingdom
Prince, you arrived on 15 September 1984 in London.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 19°C in London.
19°C/ 67°F high
Low of 12°C · 0.3 mm of precipitation · wind up to 17 mph
The sun rose at 06:35 and set at 19:14 — 12h 39m 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 gibbous watched over you.
75% lit · 19.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from London that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Jupiter without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 247,944 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “What's Love Got To Do With It”
by Tina Turner — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Ghostbusters”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1984-09-15
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
2,199 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
42 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Virgo.
Star sign
Virgo
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Rat
Wood Rat
Birthstone
Sapphire
for your month
Birth flower
Aster
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Saturday
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