Rewinding to Sunday, August 10, 1997…
Sunday · Los Angeles, California, United States
The world on August 10, 1997 in Los Angeles.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 74°F in Los Angeles.
74°F/ 23°C high
Low of 60°F · dry · wind up to 11 mph
The sun rose at 6:10 am and set at 7:44 pm — 13h 34m 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 first quarter watched over you.
46% lit · 7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Los Angeles that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Jupiter without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 245,518 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 · 1997-08-10
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
1,525 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles travelled
29 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Fire Ox
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Sunday
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