Rewinding to Friday 8 September 1989…
Friday · Stockholm, Sweden
The world on 8 September 1989 in Stockholm.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 16°C in Stockholm.
16°C/ 61°F high
Low of 9°C · 0.8 mm of precipitation · wind up to 8 km/h
The sun rose at 05:59 and set at 19:29 — 13h 29m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A first quarter watched over you.
54% lit · 7.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Stockholm that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 394,726 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Cold Hearted”
by Paula Abdul — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Right Here Waiting”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Sweden’s shop prices from 1989 aren’t in the records we use, so here is what the same basket cost in the US that day.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1989-09-08
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
1,939 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
37 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Virgo.
Star sign
Virgo
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Earth Snake
Birthstone
Sapphire
for your month
Birth flower
Aster
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Friday
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