Cost of Living 2001

• Average Cost of new house $136,150.00
• Average Income per year $42,350.00
  
• Average Monthly Rent $715.00
  
• Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.46
  
• Average cost of new car $25,850.00
  
• US Postage Stamp 34 cents
  
• 1 LB of Bacon $3.22
  
• Ground Coffee per LB $3.06
  
• Loaf of Bread $1.82
  
• Dozen Eggs 90 cents
  

In our lives in 2001

• The Nebraska Huskers played Northwestern in the Alamo Bowl, winning 66-17.
• Southeast High School wins All-Sports Champions.
• On graduation day, “Lady Marmalade” featuring Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, and Pink top the Billboard 'Hot 100' chart.
• Pearl Harbor wins the top spot at the box office during the weekend of June 1, 2001.
  

Popular Culture in 2001

• Winona Ryder shoplifts
• Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were happily married.
• Sharon Stone's husband, Phil Bronstein, was bitten by Komodo dragon.
  
• Al Pacino became a father again at age 60.
• In March, Julia Roberts won the Oscar for 2000’s Erin Brockovich.  The Gladiator wins best picture.

Popular Musicians

• Enrique Iglesias
• Shaggy
• Janet Jackson
• Destiny's Child
• Alicia Keys
• Missy Elliott
• Dido
• Weezer
• Radiohead
• Missy Elliott
• Aaliyah
• Wheatus
• Creed

Popular Films

• Memento
• Moulin Rouge!
• Shrek
• Zoolander
• Pearl Harbor
• Training Day
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Donnie Darko
• Ocean’s Eleven

Popular Television

• Dawson's Creek
• Survivor
• The Simpsons
• ER
• Friends
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Dharma & Greg
• South Park
• Sex and the City
• That '70s Show
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• Will & Grace
• Family Guy
• The West Wing

Other popular phenomenons:

• Sony's PlayStation 2, which was released in 2000, dominates gaming world
• Low-rise jeans
• Apple Computer releases the iPod.
• Segways hit the streets
  
• The XFL
• Napster is closed down by court order following an injunction on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

In the News in 2001

• Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, launches on the internet.
• George Walker Bush succeeds William Jefferson Clinton as the 43rd President of the United States of America.
• FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 15 years.
• The Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the first space tourist, American Dennis Tito.
• In the Netherlands, the Act on the Opening up of Marriage goes into effect. The Act allows same-sex couples to marry legally for the first time in the world since the reign of Nero.
• Sherpa Temba Tsheri, 16, becomes the youngest person to summit Mount Everest.
• Russian space station Mir re-enters the atmosphere near Nadi, Fiji, and falls into the Pacific Ocean.
• Jim Jeffords, the United States Senator for Vermont, leaves the Republican Party and becomes an Independent. He joins the Democratic caucus, giving them a 51-49 majority for the remainder of 107th United States Congress.
• In Terre Haute, Indiana, Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma City bombing.
• The world's first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools.
• Beijing wins the bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics.
• G-7 renamed “Group of 8” (G-8). The 27th G8 summit takes place in Genoa, Italy. Massive demonstrations against the meeting by anti-globalization groups
• U.S. President George W. Bush announces his limited support for federal funding of research on embryonic stem cells.
• Almost 3,000 are killed in the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 crashes into grassland in Shanksville.
• The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as letters containing anthrax spores are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and the National Enquirer. 22 in total are exposed; 5 of them die.
• The United States invades Afghanistan, with participation from other nations.
• NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
• U.S. President George W. Bush signs the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
• In the first such act since World War II, U.S. President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts against the United States.
• Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection 5 days after Dynegy cancels a US $8.4 billion buyout bid (to that point, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history).
• A Paris–Miami, Florida flight is diverted to Boston, Massachusetts after passenger Richard Reid attempts to set his shoe, filled with explosives, on fire.  He is dubbed the shoebomber by media.  To this day, we still remove our shoes.
• The People's Republic of China is admitted to the World Trade Organization after 15 years of negotiations and granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.
• Pharmaceutical Companies Agree to sell AIDS drugs for cost price in Africa, a discount of up to 90% to help the fight against Aids.
• California suffers more Rolling Blackouts and electricity rate hikes of up to 46 percent.
• Tony Blair and the British Labour party are elected for a second term.
• The Eden Project in Cornwall, England Opened ( the worlds largest greenhouse ) trying to help save the worlds largest collection of plants.