Rewinding to Saturday 26 September 1987…
Saturday · Pyongyang, North Korea
Kim, you arrived on 26 September 1987 in Pyongyang.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 13°C in Pyongyang.
13°C/ 55°F high
Low of 5°C · dry · wind up to 37 km/h
The sun rose at 06:27 and set at 18:29 — 12h 2m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
12% lit · 3.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Pyongyang that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 383,649 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Didn't We Almost Have It All”
by Whitney Houston — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “I Just Can't Stop Loving You”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1987-09-26
BREAD COSTS 3.3× 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
2,041 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 Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Fire Rabbit
Birthstone
Sapphire
for your month
Birth flower
Aster
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Saturday
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