2001
- 30 inches (76 cm) of snow falls on Mount Hamilton (pictured)
- The collapse of the Dot-com bubble accelerates
- City Lights Bookstore is declared a San Francisco Designated Landmark
- Michael Chabon's 2000 novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- Apple, Inc. releases iTunes, and later in the year introduces the iPod