Rewinding to Wednesday 4 November 1998…
Wednesday · Madrid, Spain
Achraf, you arrived on 4 November 1998 in Madrid.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 12°C in Madrid.
12°C/ 54°F high
Low of 3°C · 11.8 mm of precipitation · wind up to 23 km/h
The sun rose at 07:47 and set at 18:08 — 10h 21m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A full moon watched over you.
99% lit · 15.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Madrid that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 357,259 km away — closer than usual, a supermoon.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “The First Night”
by Monica — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “One Week”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1998-11-04
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
1,461 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
28 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Scorpio.
Star sign
Scorpio
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Earth Tiger
Birthstone
Topaz
for your month
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Wednesday
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