Rewinding to Thursday 9 November 1989…

Thursday · Berlin, Germany

The world on 9 November 1989 in Berlin.

Outside

9°C, drizzle

Moon

waxing gibbous

#1 song

Listen To Your Heart

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01The weather outside

It was drizzle in Berlin.

9°C/ 48°F high

Low of 4°C · 1.3 mm of rain · wind up to 19 km/h

The sun rose at 07:17 and set at 16:22 — 9h 5m of daylight.

Reconstructed from the ERA5 climate reanalysis — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.

02The sky that night

A waxing gibbous watched over you.

83% lit · 10.8 days into its cycle

Looking up from Berlin that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter without a telescope.

It was autumn in your half of the world.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Listen To Your Heart”

by Roxette — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Miss You Much”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1989-11-09

ITEM1989TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.68$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$1.08$2.27Gallon of milkwhole≈$1.54$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.00$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$2.90$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$3.35$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$124,800$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.25$0.78

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

1,929 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

km travelled

36 laps around the Sun

Mark your calendar: you’ll be 2,000 weeks old on March 9, 2028 — 494 days from now.

06Born under

A Thursday's child, under Scorpio.

Star sign

♏ Scorpio

Water sign

Chinese zodiac

🐍 Snake

Earth Snake

Birthstone

Topaz

for your month

Birth flower

Chrysanthemum

for your month

Generation

Millennials

1981–1996

Day of the week

Thursday

07 — 11 Still sealed

There’s more to your day.

5 more chapters are waiting, rebuilt from the same archives.

  • Your star

    A real star in Boötes, 36.7 light-years away.

  • The world that day

    2 moments in history happened on your exact date.

  • Birthday twins

    12 well-known people share your birthday.

  • If someone had invested

    The stock market has grown about 23× since you arrived.

  • Who ran the country in 1989

    2 leaders were in office the day you arrived.

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