Rewinding to Saturday 13 July 1985…

Saturday · London, England, United Kingdom

The world on 13 July 1985 in London.

Outside

26°C, heavy drizzle

Moon

waning crescent

#1 song

A View To A Kill

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01The weather outside

It was heavy drizzle in London.

26°C/ 79°F high

Low of 11°C · 2.5 mm of rain · wind up to 8 mph

The sun rose at 03:58 and set at 20:13 — 16h 15m of daylight.

Reconstructed from the ERA5 climate reanalysis — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.

02The sky that night

A waning crescent watched over you.

17% lit · 25.5 days into its cycle

Looking up from London that evening, you could have spotted Mercury and Saturn without a telescope.

It was summer in your half of the world.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “A View To A Kill”

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

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1985-07-13

ITEM1985TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.56$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.79$2.27Gallon of milkwhole≈$1.31$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.24$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$2.59$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$3.35$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$83,200$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.22$0.78

BREAD COSTS 3.3× 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

2,155 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles travelled

41 laps around the Sun

Mark your calendar: you’ll be 20,000 days old on April 15, 2040 — 4,914 days from now.

06Born under

A Saturday's child, under Cancer.

Star sign

♋ Cancer

Water sign

Chinese zodiac

🐂 Ox

Wood Ox

Birthstone

Ruby

for your month

Birth flower

Larkspur

for your month

Generation

Millennials

1981–1996

Day of the week

Saturday

07 — 11 Still sealed

There’s more to your day.

5 more chapters are waiting, rebuilt from the same archives.

  • Your star

    A real star in Auriga, 42.8 light-years away.

  • The world that day

    2 moments in history happened on your exact date.

  • Birthday twins

    12 well-known people share your birthday.

  • If someone had invested

    The stock market has grown about 40× since you arrived.

  • Who ran the country in 1985

    2 leaders were in office the day you arrived.

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