Rewinding to Wednesday, July 30, 1997…
Wednesday · Los Angeles, California, United States
Finneas, you arrived on July 30, 1997 in Los Angeles.
Scroll back in time ↓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
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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