Rewinding to Sunday, September 1, 1996…
Sunday · Oakland, California, United States
Zendaya, you arrived on September 1, 1996 in Oakland.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 72°F in Oakland.
72°F/ 22°C high
Low of 52°F · dry · wind up to 8 mph
The sun rose at 6:39 am and set at 7:37 pm — 12h 58m 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 waning gibbous watched over you.
76% lit · 19.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from Oakland that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 236,676 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)”
by Los Del Rio — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks, taking over from “You're Makin' Me High/Let It Flow”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
OAKLAND · 1996-09-01
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
1,574 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles travelled
30 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Virgo.
Star sign
Virgo
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Rat
Fire Rat
Birthstone
Sapphire
for your month
Birth flower
Aster
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Sunday
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