The moonlight exploded with greetings and best wishes

Happy birthday, etherlad!

(And, according to wolfspoor, this date in 1924 marks the official start of the Adventure! timeframe. Useful to know.)

( Edited to add evidence for the proposition. )

This month in Trinity Universe history

Yeah, a "This month" post, because I didn't have any "This day" (having forgotten, or just not known, the bit about Adventure!'s timeframe kicking off on this date).

2000
[Aberrant] Louis Freeman surfaces in Bangkok, where the first nova-level shootfighting competitions have begun. With his plasma powers and formidable non-powered fighting prowess, he makes a name for himself on the independent underground fighting circuit. His manager is Yai Lokampang, Thai-born innovator of nova-on-nova deathmatches.

Freeman, or "Duke 'Core' Baron" as he's known in the fight pits, may have developed some of his brawling skillz during a brief term in the Navy. His service to his country, already reluctant, came to an end when he erupted and fled the country just ahead of possibly becoming one of America's first elites.

At about the same time, the McMahon family sell their shares in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), declining like all baseline sports, to Houston investor William Blair "B.B." Bartlett, who starts making arrangements to take nova shootfighting mainstream (including contact with Lokampang), beginning the construction of the Xtreme Warfare Federation (XWF), the WWF's successor.

By 2008, you almost literally won't be able to get away from knowing about the XWF, any more than you can escape knowing about Utopia or the Teragen. But in the TU's 2004, Utopia is the only one of those three that most baselines have heard of.

I've said it before, and I'll go right on saying it whenever I have a good excuse: one of the things about TDiTUH for me is watching how, a universe away, all this backstory is theoretically unfolding.

Today in the Trinity Universe

And this.

2004
[Aberrant] The hypercombustion engine is released. Designed by nova Tetsuo Yamato, the hypercombustion engine is a super-efficient internal combustion engine, suitable for consumer and industrial applications. It boasts a tenfold decrease in fuel consumption while increasing power by a like amount. Within the decade, all automotive transportation and fossil-fuel-based electric production use hypercombustion engines exclusively.

Another thing that ratchets down Mideast tensions from those of OTL, I'd say.