Rewinding to Thursday 3 August 1989…
Thursday · Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Jules, you arrived on 3 August 1989 in Nice.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 24°C in Nice.
24°C/ 75°F high
Low of 21°C · dry · wind up to 23 km/h
The sun rose at 06:21 and set at 20:51 — 14h 30m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
5% lit · 2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Nice that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 397,260 km away — farther 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. · 1989-08-03
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
1,944 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
37 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Earth Snake
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Thursday
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