Rewinding to Tuesday 24 October 1989…
Tuesday · Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
The world on 24 October 1989 in Gothenburg.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 11°C in Gothenburg.
11°C/ 53°F high
Low of 10°C · 10.2 mm of precipitation · wind up to 33 km/h
The sun rose at 07:06 and set at 16:45 — 9h 39m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
20% lit · 25.2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Gothenburg that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 400,396 km away — farther than usual.
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.
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. · 1989-10-24
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
1,932 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
37 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Scorpio.
Star sign
Scorpio
Water 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
Tuesday
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