Rewinding to Monday, August 26, 1991…
Monday · New York, United States
The world on August 26, 1991 in New York.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 74°F in New York.
74°F/ 23°C high
Low of 65°F · dry · wind up to 12 mph
The sun rose at 6:16 am and set at 7:38 pm — 13h 22m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
97% lit · 16.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from New York that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 243,710 miles 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.
GENERAL STORE
NEW YORK · 1991-08-26
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
1,836 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
35 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Monday's child, under Virgo.
Star sign
Virgo
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Goat
Metal Goat
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Monday
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