Rewinding to Sunday 18 January 1998…
Sunday · Gualeguay, Entre Rios, Argentina
The world on 18 January 1998 in Gualeguay.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 29°C in Gualeguay.
29°C/ 83°F high
Low of 12°C · dry · wind up to 12 km/h
The sun rose at 06:06 and set at 20:08 — 14h 2m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
67% lit · 20.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Gualeguay that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 404,611 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Truly Madly Deeply”
by Savage Garden — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1998-01-18
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
1,503 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 Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Fire Ox
Birthstone
Garnet
for your month
Birth flower
Carnation
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Sunday
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