Rewinding to Thursday 4 May 1989…

Thursday · Holywood, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Rory, you arrived on 4 May 1989 in Holywood.

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01The weather outside

A high of 12°C in Holywood.

12°C/ 54°F high

Low of 8°C · 0.5 mm of precipitation · wind up to 11 mph

The sun rose at 05:38 and set at 21:02 — 15h 24m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A new moon watched over you.

1% lit · 28.8 days into its cycle

Looking up from Holywood that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter without a telescope.

It was spring in your half of the world.

The Moon was 223,779 miles away — closer than usual.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Like A Prayer”

by Madonna — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “She Drives Me Crazy”.

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04What a pound bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN UNITED KINGDOM · 1989-05-04

ITEM1989TODAYSliced white loaf800 g£0.49£1.44Litre of milkfresh£0.49£1.17Kilo of flourwheat£0.36£0.57Kilo of bananas1 kg£1.06£1.05Kilo of sugarwhite£0.57£1.18Kilo of chickenwhole£1.94£3.87

Measured shop prices

Prices: Office for National Statistics (UK)

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

1,957 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

37 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Thursday's child, under Taurus.

Star sign

Taurus

Earth sign

Chinese zodiac

Snake

Earth Snake

Birthstone

Emerald

for your month

Birth flower

Lily of the valley

for your month

Generation

Millennials

1981–1996

Day of the week

Thursday

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