Rewinding to Tuesday 16 July 1991…
Tuesday · Leytonstone, England, United Kingdom
The world on 16 July 1991 in Leytonstone.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 21°C in Leytonstone.
21°C/ 69°F high
Low of 11°C · 1.5 mm of precipitation · wind up to 16 mph
The sun rose at 05:00 and set at 21:10 — 16h 10m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
32% lit · 5.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from Leytonstone that evening, you could have spotted Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 235,935 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Rush Rush”
by Paula Abdul — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “More Than Words”.
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04What a pound bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN UNITED KINGDOM · 1991-07-16
Measured shop prices
Prices: Office for National Statistics (UK)
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
1,842 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
35 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Cancer.
Star sign
Cancer
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Goat
Metal Goat
Birthstone
Ruby
for your month
Birth flower
Larkspur
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Tuesday
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