Rewinding to Wednesday, December 27, 1995…
Wednesday · New York, United States
The world on December 27, 1995 in New York.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 32°F in New York.
32°F/ 0°C high
Low of 24°F · dry · wind up to 22 mph
The sun rose at 7:18 am and set at 4:35 pm — 9h 16m of daylight.
Daily estimates from NASA POWER on a regional grid, using local solar days. Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A first quarter watched over you.
43% lit · 6.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from New York that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 236,327 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “One Sweet Day”
by Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 16 weeks, taking over from “Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (From "Waiting To Exhale")”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
NEW YORK · 1995-12-27
BREAD COSTS 2.2× 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
1,610 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles travelled
30 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Pig
Wood Pig
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Wednesday
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