Rewinding to Thursday 23 July 1987…
Thursday · Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany
Julian, you arrived on 23 July 1987 in Landsberg am Lech.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 21°C in Landsberg am Lech.
21°C/ 70°F high
Low of 13°C · 6.3 mm of precipitation · wind up to 6 km/h
The sun rose at 05:40 and set at 21:04 — 15h 24m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
4% lit · 27.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Landsberg am Lech that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 405,779 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Alone”
by Heart — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Germany’s shop prices from 1987 aren’t in the records we use, so here is what the same basket cost in the US that day.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1987-07-23
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
2,050 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
39 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Fire Rabbit
Birthstone
Ruby
for your month
Birth flower
Larkspur
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Thursday
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