Rewinding to Wednesday 26 February 1986…
Wednesday · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Teresa, you arrived on 26 February 1986 in Adelaide.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 30°C in Adelaide.
30°C/ 85°F high
Low of 15°C · dry · wind up to 23 km/h
The sun rose at 6:59 am and set at 7:57 pm — 12h 58m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
96% lit · 16.7 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above Adelaide's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 372,630 km away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “How Will I Know”
by Whitney Houston — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “That's What Friends Are For”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Australia’s shop prices from 1986 aren’t in the records we use, so here is what the same basket cost in the US that day.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1986-02-26
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
2,123 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
40 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Pisces.
Star sign
Pisces
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Fire Tiger
Birthstone
Amethyst
for your month
Birth flower
Violet
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Wednesday
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