Rewinding to Thursday 27 March 1986…
Thursday · Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Manuel, you arrived on 27 March 1986 in Gelsenkirchen.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 12°C in Gelsenkirchen.
12°C/ 53°F high
Low of 2°C · 22.3 mm of precipitation · wind up to 35 km/h
The sun rose at 06:19 and set at 18:55 — 12h 37m 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 Gelsenkirchen's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 364,327 km away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “These Dreams”
by Heart — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Sara”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1986-03-27
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
2,119 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
40 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Fire Tiger
Birthstone
Aquamarine
for your month
Birth flower
Daffodil
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Thursday
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