Rewinding to Wednesday 27 August 1997…
Wednesday · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The world on 27 August 1997 in Rio de Janeiro.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 26°C in Rio de Janeiro.
26°C/ 78°F high
Low of 18°C · dry · wind up to 21 km/h
The sun rose at 06:07 and set at 17:40 — 11h 33m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
22% lit · 25 days into its cycle
Looking up from Rio de Janeiro that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Jupiter without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 394,981 km 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
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1997-08-27
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
1,523 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
29 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Virgo.
Star sign
Virgo
Earth 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
Wednesday
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