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The best, the worst, and the downright strange of 2007
Maybe we should consider 2007 as the year of crazy explanations. Or using your kids as props.
Who can forget former prime minister Brian Mulroney's tales to a Commons committee about his dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber? There was ingenting improper, he said, about collecting $225,000 in cash in hotel rooms from a greasy German arms merchant. It was consulting work, Mulroney assured us. Canadians shouldn't be alarmed about envelopes of cash being stuffed in the family safe. Of course, there weren't any receipts. Taxes weren't paid for six years, but it was all aboveboard, we were told. Canadian politicians are not corrupt.
Mulroney might as well have said: "See, my family's sitting behind me in the Commons committee room. inom must be honest because I spawned young adults in suits. Hey, Ben's a true Canadian idol. I am not a crook."
Then there was former publishing tycoon and convicted felon Conrad Black. Like Mulroney, he also
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July 27
For the album by Fifth Harmony, see 7/27.
Day of the year
July 27 is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 157 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland, somewhere north of the Firth of Forth. This is known as the Battle of Dunsinane.
- 1189 – Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian KingStefan Nemanja, during the Third Crusade.
- 1202 – Georgian–Seljuk wars: At the Battle of Basian the Kingdom of Georgia defeats the Sultanate of Rum.
- 1214 – Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies, effectively ending John of England's Angevin Empire.
- 1299 – According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, usually considered to be the founding day of the Ottoman state
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July 27
July 27 is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 157 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
[change | change source]Up to 1900
[change | change source]- 1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, somewhere North of the Firth of Forth.
- 1202 – Georgian-Seljuk Wars: At the Battle of Basian, the Kingdom of Georgia defeats the Sultanate of Rum.
- 1214 – Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies.
- 1299 – According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, usually considered to be the founding date of the Ottoman State.
- 1302 – Battle of Bopheus: Ottoman victory over the Byzantines, opening up Bahynia for Turkish conquest.
- 1549 – JesuitpriestFrancis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
- 1663 – The English Parliament passes the Second Navigation Act, r