1. The
Black Eyed Peas
song
“I Gotta Feeling”
topped the charts for the entire month of August. It spent 26 weeks at #1 in 2009.
2. The best-selling albums were
“Leave This Town”
by
Daughtry
, and
“Here We Go Again”
by
Demi Lovato
.
(Yeah, we still bought albums back then. Spotify wasn’t available in the U.S. for another two years.)
3.
“Party in the U.S.A.”
by
Miley Cyrus
was just hitting airwaves for the first time.
4.
Emily Blunt
and
John Krasinski
announced they were engaged.
5. Newly elected
President Obama
named
Sonia Sotomayor
to the Supreme Court.
6.
Michael Jackson’s
death was officially ruled a homicide. He died in June of 2009.
7. Director
John Hughes
died of a heart attack at 59 . . .
Ted Kennedy
lost his battle with brain cancer at age 77 . . . and
DJ AM
died of an accidental overdose.
8.
Kourtney Kardashian
announced she and
Scott Disick
were pregnant with their first child. They now have three.
9. Rumor had it that
Bradley Cooper
and
Jennifer Aniston
had broken up, and he’d moved on to
Renée Zellweger
.
10. The third season of
“Mad Men”
premiered on AMC.
11. The show
“Shark Tank”
debuted. Yes, we’ve been watching this for 10 YEARS.
12.
Paula Abdul
announced she wouldn’t return as a judge on
“American Idol”
.
13.
Quentin Tarantino’s
seventh full-length feature,
“Inglourious Basterds”
hit theaters. He’s only done three more since then:
“Django Unchained”
,
“The Hateful Eight”
, and
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
.
14. The first
“Twilight”
movie was the big winner at the
Teen Choice Awards
. . . but was totally SNUBBED at the Oscars, and didn’t get a single nomination.
(???)
15. And Disney announced they were buying the Marvel brand for $4 BILLION.
(
BuzzFeed
)
