Rewinding to Tuesday 5 May 1998…
Tuesday · Minsk, Belarus
Aryna, you arrived on 5 May 1998 in Minsk.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 16°C in Minsk.
16°C/ 61°F high
Low of 10°C · 27.9 mm of precipitation · wind up to 29 km/h
The sun rose at 05:26 and set at 20:47 — 15h 21m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
72% lit · 9.5 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above Minsk's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 402,471 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Too Close”
by Next — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “All My Life”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Belarus’s shop prices from 1998 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. · 1998-05-05
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
1,487 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 Taurus.
Star sign
Taurus
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Earth Tiger
Birthstone
Emerald
for your month
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Tuesday
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