Rewinding to Thursday 24 December 1998…
Thursday · Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
The world on 24 December 1998 in Santa Rosa.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 39°C in Santa Rosa.
39°C/ 102°F high
Low of 16°C · dry · wind up to 15 km/h
The sun rose at 05:56 and set at 20:36 — 14h 40m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
34% lit · 5.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Santa Rosa that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 378,408 km away, right about average.
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. · 1998-12-24
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 Thursday's child, under Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth 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
Thursday
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