1861-First Battle of Bull Run [Battle of First Manassas], the first major battle of the U.S. Civil War, is fought near Manassas, Virginia, and ends in a Confederate victory1904-After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian Railway is completed1925-John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, fined $100 and costs1954-Geneva Accords for Indochina are signed, dividing French colonial territories into the countries of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam), Cambodia, and Laos1970-Aswan High Dam opens in Egypt, enabling human control of the flooding of the Nile2024-U.S. President Joe Biden abandons his campaign for re-election and endorses Vice President Kamala Harris