Rewinding to Sunday 20 December 1998…
Sunday · Paris, Île-de-France Region, France
The world on 20 December 1998 in Paris.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 5°C in Paris.
5°C/ 40°F high
Low of 0°C · 5.5 mm of precipitation · wind up to 31 km/h
The sun rose at 08:40 and set at 16:55 — 8h 15m 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 crescent watched over you.
4% lit · 1.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from Paris that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 393,011 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “I'm Your Angel”
by R. Kelly & Celine Dion — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks, taking over from “Lately”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1998-12-20
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
1,454 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
27 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Sagittarius.
Star sign
Sagittarius
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Earth Tiger
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Sunday
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