Rewinding to Monday 5 June 1995…
Monday · Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
The world on 5 June 1995 in Johannesburg.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 19°C in Johannesburg.
19°C/ 66°F high
Low of 4°C · dry · wind up to 29 km/h
The sun rose at 06:49 and set at 17:23 — 10h 34m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A first quarter watched over you.
43% lit · 6.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from Johannesburg that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Jupiter without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 389,610 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?”
by Bryan Adams — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “This Is How We Do It”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
South Africa’s shop prices from 1995 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. · 1995-06-05
BREAD COSTS 2.3× 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
1,639 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
31 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Monday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Pig
Wood Pig
Birthstone
Pearl
for your month
Birth flower
Rose
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Monday
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