Rewinding to Thursday, October 5, 1989…
Thursday · Westlake, Ohio, United States
Travis, you arrived on October 5, 1989 in Westlake.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 61°F in Westlake.
61°F/ 16°C high
Low of 44°F · dry · wind up to 21 mph
The sun rose at 7:28 am and set at 7:02 pm — 11h 34m 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 waxing crescent watched over you.
31% lit · 5.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Westlake that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 247,762 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Girl I'm Gonna Miss You”
by Milli Vanilli — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Don't Wanna Lose You”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
WESTLAKE · 1989-10-05
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
1,935 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 Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Earth Snake
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Thursday
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