Rewinding to Sunday 27 April 1986…

Sunday · Blackpool, England, United Kingdom

Jenna, you arrived on 27 April 1986 in Blackpool.

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01The weather outside

A high of 9°C in Blackpool.

9°C/ 47°F high

Low of 4°C · 0.2 mm of precipitation · wind up to 9 mph

The sun rose at 05:45 and set at 20:35 — 14h 50m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A waning gibbous watched over you.

85% lit · 18.6 days into its cycle

Looking up from Blackpool that evening, you could have spotted Venus without a telescope.

It was spring in your half of the world.

The Moon was 225,535 miles away — closer than usual.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Kiss”

by Prince And The Revolution — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Rock Me Amadeus”.

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04What a pound bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN UNITED KINGDOM · 1986-04-27

ITEM1986TODAYSliced white loaf800 g£0.43£1.44Litre of milkfresh£0.42£1.17Kilo of flourwheat£0.30£0.57Kilo of bananas1 kg£1.01£1.05Kilo of sugarwhite£0.47£1.18Kilo of chickenwhole£1.77£3.87

Measured shop prices

Prices: Office for National Statistics (UK)

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

2,115 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

40 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Sunday's child, under Taurus.

Star sign

Taurus

Earth sign

Chinese zodiac

Tiger

Fire Tiger

Birthstone

Diamond

for your month

Birth flower

Daisy

for your month

Generation

Millennials

1981–1996

Day of the week

Sunday

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