Rewinding to Wednesday, April 27, 1988…
Wednesday · Detroit, Michigan, United States
Lizzo, you arrived on April 27, 1988 in Detroit.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 50°F in Detroit.
50°F/ 10°C high
Low of 37°F · 0.14 in of precipitation · wind up to 22 mph
The sun rose at 6:32 am and set at 8:27 pm — 13h 55m 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 waxing gibbous watched over you.
85% lit · 11 days into its cycle
Looking up from Detroit that evening, you could have spotted Venus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 249,540 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Where Do Broken Hearts Go”
by Whitney Houston — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
DETROIT · 1988-04-27
BREAD COSTS 3.1× 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
2,010 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
38 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Taurus.
Star sign
Taurus
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Dragon
Earth Dragon
Birthstone
Diamond
for your month
Birth flower
Daisy
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Wednesday
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