Rewinding to Wednesday 25 December 1991…

Wednesday · Moscow, Russia

The world on 25 December 1991 in Moscow.

Outside

1°C, light snow

Moon

waning gibbous

#1 song

Black Or White

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01The weather outside

It was light snow in Moscow.

1°C/ 33°F high

Low of -2°C · dry · wind up to 14 km/h

The sun rose at 08:59 and set at 15:59 — 7h 0m of daylight.

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

02The sky that night

A waning gibbous watched over you.

75% lit · 19.7 days into its cycle

No bright planets were above Moscow's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.

It was winter in your half of the world.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Black Or White”

by Michael Jackson — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks, taking over from “Set Adrift On Memory Bliss”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1991-12-25

ITEM1991TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.72$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$1.01$2.27Gallon of milkwhole≈$1.69$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.12$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$2.63$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$4.25$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$120,000$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.29$0.78

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

1,818 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

km travelled

34 laps around the Sun

Mark your calendar: you’ll be 2,000 weeks old on April 24, 2030 — 1,270 days from now.

06Born under

A Wednesday's child, under Capricorn.

Star sign

♑ Capricorn

Earth sign

Chinese zodiac

🐐 Goat

Metal Goat

Birthstone

Turquoise

for your month

Birth flower

Narcissus

for your month

Generation

Millennials

1981–1996

Day of the week

Wednesday

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 Leo, 35.9 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 20× since you arrived.

  • Who ran the country in 1991

    1 leaders were in office the day you arrived.

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