Rewinding to Wednesday 31 July 1991…
Wednesday · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
The world on 31 July 1991 in Mumbai.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 28°C in Mumbai.
28°C/ 82°F high
Low of 25°C · 8.1 mm of precipitation · wind up to 32 km/h
The sun rose at 6:14 am and set at 7:14 pm — 13h 0m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
78% lit · 19.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Mumbai that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 390,216 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”
by Bryan Adams — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks, taking over from “Unbelievable”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
India’s shop prices from 1991 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. · 1991-07-31
BREAD COSTS 2.6× 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
1,840 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
35 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire 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
Wednesday
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