MONDAY, July 21, 2025

365-Crete Earthquake followed by tsunami around the Eastern Mediterranean allegedly destroys Alexandria

1861-First Battle of Bull Run [Battle of First Manassas], the first major battle of the US Civil War is fought near Manassas, Virginia and ends in a Confederate victory

1904-After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed

1925-John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, fined $100 and costs

1954-Geneva Accords for Indochina signed, dividing French colonial territories into the countries of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam), Cambodia, and Laos

1970-Aswan High Dam opens in Egypt, enables human control of the flooding of the Nile