Rewinding to Friday 5 March 1993…
Friday · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
The world on 5 March 1993 in Belo Horizonte.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 25°C in Belo Horizonte.
25°C/ 77°F high
Low of 14°C · dry · wind up to 16 km/h
The sun rose at 05:55 and set at 18:19 — 12h 24m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
91% lit · 12 days into its cycle
Looking up from Belo Horizonte that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Jupiter without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 361,848 km away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “I Will Always Love You”
by Whitney Houston — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks, taking over from “How Do You Talk To An Angel”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Brazil’s shop prices from 1993 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. · 1993-03-05
BREAD COSTS 2.5× 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
1,757 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
33 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Pisces.
Star sign
Pisces
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Rooster
Water Rooster
Birthstone
Aquamarine
for your month
Birth flower
Daffodil
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Friday
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