Rewinding to Saturday 5 November 1988…
Saturday · Delhi, India
The world on 5 November 1988 in Delhi.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 30°C in Delhi.
30°C/ 87°F high
Low of 17°C · dry · wind up to 12 km/h
The sun rose at 6:36 am and set at 5:33 pm — 10h 57m 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 waning crescent watched over you.
14% lit · 25.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Delhi that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Jupiter without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 404,299 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Kokomo (From"Cocktail" )”
by The Beach Boys — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Groovy Kind Of Love”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1988-11-05
BREAD COSTS 2.8× 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
1,982 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 Scorpio.
Star sign
Scorpio
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Dragon
Earth Dragon
Birthstone
Topaz
for your month
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Saturday
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