Rewinding to Wednesday 18 June 1986…
Wednesday · Elderslie, Scotland, United Kingdom
The world on 18 June 1986 in Elderslie.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 15°C in Elderslie.
15°C/ 59°F high
Low of 7°C · dry · wind up to 9 mph
The sun rose at 04:31 and set at 22:06 — 17h 34m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
84% lit · 10.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Elderslie that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Venus, Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 226,200 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “On My Own”
by Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Live To Tell”.
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04What a pound bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN UNITED KINGDOM · 1986-06-18
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
2,107 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
40 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Fire Tiger
Birthstone
Pearl
for your month
Birth flower
Rose
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Wednesday
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