Rewinding to Saturday 30 April 1988…
Saturday · Havana, Cuba
The world on 30 April 1988 in Havana.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 32°C in Havana.
32°C/ 89°F high
Low of 25°C · 0.6 mm of precipitation · wind up to 32 km/h
The sun rose at 06:56 and set at 19:56 — 13h 0m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A full moon watched over you.
99% lit · 13.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from Havana that evening, you could have spotted Venus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 391,727 km away, right about average.
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.
Cuba’s shop prices from 1988 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. · 1988-04-30
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
km travelled
38 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday'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
Saturday
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