Rewinding to Sunday 8 June 1997…
Sunday · Riga, Latvia
Jeļena, you arrived on 8 June 1997 in Riga.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 23°C in Riga.
23°C/ 73°F high
Low of 12°C · dry · wind up to 15 km/h
The sun rose at 04:32 and set at 22:13 — 17h 41m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
12% lit · 3.4 days into its cycle
Looking up from Riga that evening, you could have spotted Venus and Mars without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 397,447 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “MMMBop”
by Hanson — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Hypnotize”.
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04What a lats bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN LATVIA · 1997-06-08
Measured shop prices · ≈ carried back to 1997 with that food’s own price change
Prices: Official Statistics Portal of Latvia · Price change per food: Eurostat HICP
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
1,535 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
29 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Gemini.
Star sign
Gemini
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Fire Ox
Birthstone
Pearl
for your month
Birth flower
Rose
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Sunday
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