Rewinding to Saturday 1 June 1996…
Saturday · London, England, United Kingdom
The world on 1 June 1996 in London.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 16°C in London.
16°C/ 61°F high
Low of 7°C · 0.7 mm of precipitation · wind up to 18 mph
The sun rose at 04:48 and set at 21:08 — 16h 20m 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 full moon watched over you.
100% lit · 14.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from London that evening, you could have spotted Venus without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 226,289 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Tha Crossroads”
by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 8 weeks, taking over from “Always Be My Baby”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1996-06-01
BREAD COSTS 2.1× 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
1,587 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles travelled
30 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Rat
Fire Rat
Birthstone
Pearl
for your month
Birth flower
Rose
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Saturday
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