Rewinding to Friday, June 21, 1985…
Friday · New York, United States
The world on June 21, 1985 in New York.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 73°F in New York.
73°F/ 23°C high
Low of 59°F · dry · wind up to 11 mph
The sun rose at 5:24 am and set at 8:30 pm — 15h 6m 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 waxing crescent watched over you.
13% lit · 3.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from New York that evening, you could have spotted Mercury and Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 238,170 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”
by Tears For Fears — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Everything She Wants”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
NEW YORK · 1985-06-21
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
2,159 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
41 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Cancer.
Star sign
Cancer
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Wood Ox
Birthstone
Pearl
for your month
Birth flower
Rose
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Friday
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