Rewinding to Tuesday, May 11, 1999…
Tuesday · Quakertown, Pennsylvania, United States
The world on May 11, 1999 in Quakertown.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 73°F in Quakertown.
73°F/ 23°C high
Low of 44°F · dry · wind up to 5 mph
The sun rose at 5:49 am and set at 8:06 pm — 14h 17m 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 waning crescent watched over you.
17% lit · 25.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from Quakertown that evening, you could have spotted Venus and Mars without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 228,903 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Livin' La Vida Loca”
by Ricky Martin — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “No Scrubs”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
QUAKERTOWN · 1999-05-11
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
1,434 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles travelled
27 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Taurus.
Star sign
Taurus
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Earth Rabbit
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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