On Sunday, July 26, annual induction ceremony into the Baseball Hall of Fame is scheduled in Cooperstown, New York. Monday, July 27, is the two-year anniversary of a bomb exploding in Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Games. Two people died as a result of the bombing. From earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and deadly heat waves, the earth's weather systems are a changing. To learn more about our Savage Earth, click here.
Today is Liberation Day in Gambia.
It's a Public Holiday in Swaziland. Fashion designer Oscar De La Renta is 66. Musician Don Henley is 51. In 1456, Hungarian general Janos Hunyadi defeated Turkish forces besieging Belgrade. In 1515, the Congress of Vienna settled disputes issues between Poland and the Holy Roman Empire and the succession to the Hungarian throne.