Rewinding to Friday, November 22, 1996…
Friday · Tucson, Arizona, United States
The world on November 22, 1996 in Tucson.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 71°F in Tucson.
71°F/ 22°C high
Low of 46°F · 0.10 in of precipitation · wind up to 18 mph
The sun rose at 6:59 am and set at 5:20 pm — 10h 21m 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 waxing gibbous watched over you.
95% lit · 12.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from Tucson that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 236,667 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “No Diggity”
by BLACKstreet (Featuring Dr. Dre) — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
TUCSON · 1996-11-22
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
1,563 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
29 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Sagittarius.
Star sign
Sagittarius
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Rat
Fire Rat
Birthstone
Topaz
for your month
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Friday
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