Rewinding to Thursday 21 August 1986…
Thursday · Sherwood Content, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica
Usain, you arrived on 21 August 1986 in Sherwood Content.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 29°C in Sherwood Content.
29°C/ 83°F high
Low of 25°C · 1.7 mm of precipitation · wind up to 30 km/h
The sun rose at 05:53 and set at 18:33 — 12h 40m of daylight.
Daily estimates from NASA POWER on a regional grid, using local solar days. Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
94% lit · 17.2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Sherwood Content that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 381,871 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Papa Don't Preach”
by Madonna — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Glory Of Love (Theme From "The Karate Kid Part II")”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1986-08-21
BREAD COSTS 3.2× 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
2,098 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 Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Fire Tiger
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Thursday
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