Rewinding to Saturday 30 April 1988…

Saturday · Havana, Cuba

Ana, you arrived on 30 April 1988 in Havana.

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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

ITEM1988TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.59$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.72$2.27Gallon of milkwhole≈$1.43$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$0.93$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$2.70$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$3.35$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$110,000$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.25$0.78

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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