TheTopicalFruit.com did another list of 10 things that happened 10 years ago this week. Here’s what was in the news one decade ago . . .
1. Donald Trump officially announced he was running for president, and no one thought he had a chance. He came down his golden escalator at Trump Tower to make the announcement on June 16th, 2015. Hillary Clinton had already announced she was running that April.
2. The Rachel Dolezal scandal broke. It turned out the president of Spokane’s NAACP chapter was extremely Caucasian. (She made headlines again last year when her OnlyFans page got her fired from a teaching job in Arizona.)
3. “Jurassic World” had the biggest opening weekend ever, pulling in $208.8 million. But it only stood for six months. “Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens” topped it that December with a $248 million opening. “Avengers: Endgame” now holds the record at $357 million.
4. Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig’s movie “A Deadly Adoption“ premiered on Lifetime. The funny part was it wasn’t funny. Just a normal Lifetime movie.
5. A-Rod got his 3,000th hit, and the fan wouldn’t give him the ball. It was a homer, snagged by pro ballhawk Zack Hample. He eventually gave it up for some signed swag, free tickets, and a $150,000 donation to his favorite charity, Pitch in for Baseball.
6. Brian Williams got banished to MSNBC for his B.S. helicopter story. He’d been suspended by NBC News earlier in the year after claiming he was on a helicopter that got hit by an RPG in Iraq.
7. Sean Penn and Charlize Theron broke up. They dated for about 18 months between 2013 and 2015. Their 15-year age gap may have been an issue. (“Us Weekly” said they were engaged, but she said later that they never were.)
8. A divorced guy literally split everything down the middle. A woman in Germany left her husband of 12 years, so he sawed their possessions in half.
9. Michael Jackson’s son stopped going by the name “Blanket”. News broke that he’d started going by “Bigi” at school because he was sick of being bullied.
10. Utah Valley University invented cellphone friendly stairs. They added three separate lanes for walking, running, and texting.
