Rewinding to Tuesday 15 April 1997…

Tuesday · Bristol, England, United Kingdom

The world on 15 April 1997 in Bristol.

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01The weather outside

A high of 14°C in Bristol.

14°C/ 56°F high

Low of 4°C · dry · wind up to 10 mph

The sun rose at 06:14 and set at 20:06 — 13h 52m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A waxing gibbous watched over you.

61% lit · 8.4 days into its cycle

Looking up from Bristol that evening, you could have spotted Mars without a telescope.

It was spring in your half of the world.

The Moon was 250,444 miles away — farther than usual.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Can't Nobody Hold Me Down”

by Puff Daddy (Featuring Mase) — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks, taking over from “Wannabe”.

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04What a pound bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN UNITED KINGDOM · 1997-04-15

ITEM1997TODAYSliced white loaf800 g£0.52£1.44Litre of milkfresh£0.62£1.17Kilo of flourwheat£0.40£0.57Kilo of potatoesnew, loose£0.54£1.58Kilo of bananas1 kg£1.02£1.05Kilo of sugarwhite£0.76£1.18Kilo of chickenwhole£2.40£3.87

Measured shop prices

Prices: Office for National Statistics (UK)

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

1,542 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

29 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Tuesday's child, under Aries.

Star sign

Aries

Fire sign

Chinese zodiac

Ox

Fire Ox

Birthstone

Diamond

for your month

Birth flower

Daisy

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Tuesday

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