👽 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙴 👣 297742.47 🌎 {4/5/2025} 🖖 - ( 不不如是懊不冒安 ) Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. Men become insensitive. -- Eneg, "Patterns of Force", stardate 2534.7

Originally posted by On this day in history, the human race performed these actions:

- World War II: Adolf Hitler issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing Case Blue, including the German Sixth Army's planned assault on Stalingrad. {1942} - American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins. {1862} - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens. {1933} - United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States. {1792} - Bolivia declares war on Chile, and Chile declares war on Peru, starting the War of the Pacific. {1879} - Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. {1956} - Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold democratic elections with universal male suffrage. {1933} - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island. {1942} - During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down. {1966} - An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter. {1991} - The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated. {1922} - Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory". {1945}