Rewinding to Wednesday 31 May 1989…
Wednesday · Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Marco, you arrived on 31 May 1989 in Dortmund.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 14°C in Dortmund.
14°C/ 56°F high
Low of 3°C · dry · wind up to 14 km/h
The sun rose at 05:19 and set at 21:36 — 16h 17m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
13% lit · 26.1 days into its cycle
Looking up from Dortmund that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Jupiter without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 364,495 km away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Forever Your Girl”
by Paula Abdul — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “I'll Be There For You”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1989-05-31
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
1,953 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
37 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air 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
Wednesday
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