Rewinding to Tuesday 18 November 1997…
Tuesday · Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
The world on 18 November 1997 in Cartagena.
Outside
High of 21°C
Moon
waning gibbous
#1 song
Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight
01The weather outside
A high of 21°C in Cartagena.
21°C/ 69°F high
Low of 14°C · dry · wind up to 18 km/h
The sun rose at 07:46 and set at 17:51 — 10h 4m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
79% lit · 19.2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Cartagena that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 388,266 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.
Spain’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. · 1997-11-18
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
1,511 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
28 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday'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
Tuesday
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