Rewinding to Sunday 16 November 1997…
Sunday · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The world on 16 November 1997 in Rio de Janeiro.
Outside
High of 27°C
Moon
waning gibbous
#1 song
Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight
01The weather outside
A high of 27°C in Rio de Janeiro.
27°C/ 80°F high
Low of 23°C · 4.4 mm of precipitation · wind up to 14 km/h
The sun rose at 06:00 and set at 19:14 — 13h 14m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
93% lit · 17.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Rio de Janeiro that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 377,763 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight”
by Elton John — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks, taking over from “4 Seasons Of Loneliness”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1997-11-16
BREAD COSTS 2.0× 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
1,512 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
28 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Scorpio.
Star sign
Scorpio
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Fire Ox
Birthstone
Topaz
for your month
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Sunday
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