Rewinding to Friday, October 13, 1989…
Friday · The Bronx, New York, United States
Alexandria, you arrived on October 13, 1989 in The Bronx.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 70°F in The Bronx.
70°F/ 21°C high
Low of 47°F · dry · wind up to 7 mph
The sun rose at 7:04 am and set at 6:18 pm — 11h 13m 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 full moon watched over you.
99% lit · 13.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from The Bronx that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 222,282 miles away — closer than usual, a supermoon.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Miss You Much”
by Janet Jackson — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Girl I'm Gonna Miss You”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
THE BRONX · 1989-10-13
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
1,934 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
37 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday'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
Friday
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