Rewinding to Sunday 23 July 1989…

Sunday · London, England, United Kingdom

Daniel, you arrived on 23 July 1989 in London.

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01The weather outside

A high of 30°C in London.

30°C/ 86°F high

Low of 17°C · 1.3 mm of precipitation · wind up to 9 mph

The sun rose at 05:10 and set at 21:02 — 15h 51m 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 gibbous watched over you.

70% lit · 20.3 days into its cycle

Looking up from London that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Saturn without a telescope.

It was summer in your half of the world.

The Moon was 228,993 miles away — closer than usual.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Toy Soldiers”

by Martika — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “If You Don't Know Me By Now”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1989-07-23

ITEM1989TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.67$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.96$2.27Gallon of milkwhole≈$1.52$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.09$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$3.23$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$3.35$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$120,000$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.25$0.78

BREAD COSTS 2.7× 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

1,945 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles travelled

37 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Sunday's child, under Leo.

Star sign

Leo

Fire sign

Chinese zodiac

Snake

Earth Snake

Birthstone

Ruby

for your month

Birth flower

Larkspur

for your month

Generation

Millennials

1981–1996

Day of the week

Sunday

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