Rewinding to Saturday, July 4, 1998…
Saturday · Chicago, Illinois, United States
The world on July 4, 1998 in Chicago.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 71°F in Chicago.
71°F/ 22°C high
Low of 66°F · 0.29 in of precipitation · wind up to 20 mph
The sun rose at 5:20 am and set at 8:28 pm — 15h 8m 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 waxing gibbous watched over you.
80% lit · 10.4 days into its cycle
Looking up from Chicago that evening, you could have spotted Mercury without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 249,115 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “The Boy Is Mine”
by Brandy & Monica — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 13 weeks, taking over from “Too Close”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
CHICAGO · 1998-07-04
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
1,479 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
28 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Cancer.
Star sign
Cancer
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Earth Tiger
Birthstone
Ruby
for your month
Birth flower
Larkspur
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Saturday
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