Rewinding to Tuesday 17 September 1996…
Tuesday · Évreux, Normandy, France
Esteban, you arrived on 17 September 1996 in Évreux.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 20°C in Évreux.
20°C/ 67°F high
Low of 6°C · dry · wind up to 38 km/h
The sun rose at 07:34 and set at 20:03 — 12h 29m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
22% lit · 4.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from Évreux that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 383,921 km 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
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1996-09-17
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
1,572 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
30 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday'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
Tuesday
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