Rewinding to Monday 1 September 1997…
Monday · Busan, South Korea
The world on 1 September 1997 in Busan.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 30°C in Busan.
30°C/ 86°F high
Low of 24°C · dry · wind up to 18 km/h
The sun rose at 05:56 and set at 18:51 — 12h 55m 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 new moon watched over you.
0% lit · 29.1 days into its cycle
Looking up from Busan that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Jupiter without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 405,827 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Mo Money Mo Problems”
by The Notorious B.I.G. Featuring Puff Daddy & Mase — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “I'll Be Missing You”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1997-09-01
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
1,522 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
29 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Monday's child, under Virgo.
Star sign
Virgo
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Fire Ox
Birthstone
Sapphire
for your month
Birth flower
Aster
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Monday
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