Rewinding to Saturday 17 January 1987…
Saturday · Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine
Oleksandr, you arrived on 17 January 1987 in Simferopol.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 3°C in Simferopol.
3°C/ 37°F high
Low of -2°C · dry · wind up to 24 km/h
The sun rose at 08:17 and set at 17:29 — 9h 13m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
94% lit · 17.2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Simferopol that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Jupiter without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 399,951 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Shake You Down”
by Gregory Abbott — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Walk Like An Egyptian”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1987-01-17
BREAD COSTS 3.4× 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
2,077 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
39 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Fire Tiger
Birthstone
Garnet
for your month
Birth flower
Carnation
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Saturday
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