Rewinding to Wednesday, July 30, 1997…

Wednesday · Los Angeles, California, United States

The world on July 30, 1997 in Los Angeles.

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01The weather outside

A high of 79°F in Los Angeles.

79°F/ 26°C high

Low of 59°F · dry · wind up to 11 mph

The sun rose at 6:02 am and set at 7:55 pm — 13h 52m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A waning crescent watched over you.

10% lit · 26.6 days into its cycle

Looking up from Los Angeles that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Jupiter without a telescope.

It was summer in your half of the world.

The Moon was 244,135 miles away — farther than usual.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “I'll Be Missing You”

by Puff Daddy & Faith Evans Featuring 112 — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 11 weeks, taking over from “MMMBop”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

LOS ANGELES · 1997-07-30

ITEM1997TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.87$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.98$2.27Gallon of milkwhole$2.56$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.21$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$4.63$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$4.75$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$145,000$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.32$0.78

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

1,527 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

29 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Wednesday's child, under Leo.

Star sign

Leo

Fire sign

Chinese zodiac

Ox

Fire Ox

Birthstone

Ruby

for your month

Birth flower

Larkspur

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Wednesday

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