Rewinding to Friday 22 August 1997…
Friday · Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The world on 22 August 1997 in Bahía Blanca.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 11°C in Bahía Blanca.
11°C/ 52°F high
Low of -1°C · dry · wind up to 22 km/h
The sun rose at 07:45 and set at 18:38 — 10h 53m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
73% lit · 19.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Bahía Blanca that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Jupiter without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 369,476 km away — closer 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.
Argentina’s shop prices from 1997 aren’t in the records we use, so here is what the same basket cost in the US that day.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1997-08-22
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
1,524 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
29 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday'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
Friday
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