Millennium Hit Parade - We present to your attention the best of the best.

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Everyone who is not too lazy is involved in public opinion polls.
Shenderovich succeeds especially well in the “TOTAL” program and
(until a certain time - to Sergei Dorenko).

But we are not going to publish all this political nonsense.
We present to your attention the best of the best published by
in the newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets in Nizhny Novgorod".
These are lists only, no comments, although some of them
are very interesting, while others are controversial.

FOREIGN SPIRITUAL LEADERS OF THE XX CENTURY.
version of "Echo of Moscow".

1. Ron Hubbard
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. Martin Luther King
4. Mother Teresa
5. Sigmund Freud
6. Mao Zedong
7. Albert Schweitzer
8. Adolf Hitler
9. Ayatollah Khomeini
10. Pope John Paul II

WRITERS OF THE MILLENNIUM
BBC version

1. William Shakespeare
2. Jane Austen
3. George Orwell
4. Dickens
5. Iain Banks
6. John Tolkien
7. James Joyce
8. Fyodor Dostoevsky
9. Miguel Cervantes
10. Mark Twain

CREATORS OF THE CENTURY
Time version

1. Pablo Picasso
2. Martha Graham
3. Le Corbusier
4. Igor Stravinsky
5. Coco Chanel
6. James Joyce
7. Thomas Eliot
8. Louis Armstrong
9. Charlie Chaplin
10. MarlonBrando
11. Rodgers and Hammerstein
12. Frank Sinatra
13. Lucille Ball
14. The Beatles
15. Bob Dylan
16. Aretha Franklin
17. Jim Henson
18. Steven Spielberg
19. Bart Simpson
20. Oprah Winfrey

FOREIGN MUSICIANS OF THE CENTURY
version of "Echo of Moscow"

1. George Gershwin
2. Imre Kalman
3. Duke Ellington
4. Igor Stravinsky
5. Ella Fitzgerald
6. Yehudi Menuhin
7. Herbert von Karajan
8. Louis Armstrong
9. Vladimir Horowitz
10. Maria Callas

PEOPLE OF THE MILLENNIUM
BBC version

Men:
1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. Nelson Mandela
4. Isaac Newton
5. Albert Einstein
6. Martin Luther King
7. Jesus Christ
8. Winston Churchill
9. Charles Darwin
10. Karl Marx

Women:
1. Indira Gandhi
2. Elizabeth I
3. Mother Teresa
4. Marie Curie
5. Margaret Thatcher
6. Joan of Arc
7. Emmeline Pankhurst
8. Average woman
9. Aung San
10. Eleanor Roosevelt

VILLAINS OF THE MILLENNIUM
Almanac Millennium Central version

1. Tamerlane
2. Ivan the Terrible
3. Maximilian Robespierre
4. Joseph Stalin
5. Adolf Hitler
6. Mao Zedong
7. Francois Duvalier
8. Nicolae Ceausescu
9. Go Amin
10. Pol Pot

ICONS AND ICONS OF THE XX CENTURY
Time version

Emmeline Pankhurst
Helen Keller
Charles Lindbergh
Bill Wilson
American soldier
Jackie Robinson
Anne Frank
Billy Graham
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
Rosa Parks
Che Guevara
Marilyn Monroe
Kennedy family
Muhammad Ali
Bruce Lee
Pele
Harvey Milk
Mother Teresa
Diana of Wales
Andrey Sakharov

FOREIGN ICONS OF THE XX CENTURY
version of "Echo of Moscow"

1."The Beatles"
2. Beavis and Butt-Head
3. Marilyn Monroe
4. Elvis Presley
5. Che Guevara
6. Princess Diana
7. Salvador Dali
8. Charlie Chaplin
9. Agatha Christie
10. Frank Sinatra

FOREIGN POLITICIANS OF THE XX CENTURY
version of "Echo of Moscow"

1. Winston Churchill
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Charles de Gaulle
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt
5. Yasser Arafat
6. David Ben-Gurion
7. Fidel Castro
8. Konrad Adenauer
9. Adolf Hitler
10. Ho Chi Minh

POLITICAL LEADERS OF THE MILLENNIUM
BBC version

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Winston Churchill
3. Elizabeth I
4. George Washington
5. Abraham Lincoln
6. Nelson Mandela
7. Martin Luther King
8. Franklin D. Roosevelt
9. Ronald Reagan
10. Adolf Hitler

10 MEGAHITS OF THE CENTURY RADIO "MAXIMUM"

1. Queen "Show Must Go On"
2. Eagles "Hotel California"
3. Metallica "Nothing Else Matters"
4. The Offspring "Pretty Fly(For A White Guy)"
5. Cranberries "Zombie"
6. Celine Dion "My Heart Will Go On"
7. Madonna "Frozen"
8. Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
9. MOVIE "A Star Named Sun"
10. The Cardigans "My Favorite Game"

THE MOST USEFUL INVENTIONS OF THE XX CENTURY
Fortune version

For work:
1900 - paper clip
1959 - Xerox copier
1966 - Xerox fax
1971 - Intel microprocessor
1980 - Post-it notes
1984 - Apple Macintosh

For home:
1907 - Hoover vacuum cleaner
1918 - refrigerator "Frigidaire"
1928 - home air conditioner
1942 - household tape "Permacel"
1967 - "Amana" microwave oven

Fortravel:
1936 - DC-3 aircraft
1903 - Harley-Davidson motorcycle
1908 - Ford Model T
1950s skateboard
1957 - "Boeing 707"

For health:
1903 - safety razor "Gilette"
1921 - band-aid adhesive plaster from "Johnson & Johnson"
1928 - penicillin
1931 - "Tampax"
1960 - oral contraceptive
1988 - Prozac tranquilizer

For fun:
1958 - Lego constructor
1900 - "Kodak Brownie" camera
1935 - Kodachrome film
1948 - "Polaroid"
1976 - JVC VCR
1982 - Philips/Sony CD

For clothes:
1939 - nylon
1913 - zipper
1914 - bra
1954 - Velcro material
1959 - lycra
1961 - Procter&Gamble diapers

THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENTS OF THE CENTURY
USA Today version

1. 1945 - The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2. 1969 - American astronaut Neil Armstrong for the first time
   lands on the moon.
3. 1941 - Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; USA enters
   World War II.
4. 1903 - Wilbur and Orville Wright rule first
   motorized airplane.
5. 1920 - Women in the United States are given the right to vote.
6. 1963 - Assassination of John Kennedy.
7. 1945 - The world learns about the horrors of the Holocaust.
8. 1914 - Beginning of the First World War.
9. 1954 - racial segregation is prohibited in US schools.
10.1929 - Crisis on the New York Stock Exchange; the beginning of the Great
   depression.

...13. 1991 Collapse of the USSR
...16. 1917 October Revolution
...18. 1957 Sputnik launch
...32. 1989Creation of the Internet
...36. 1912 Sinking of the Titanic
...53. 1998 "MonicaGate"
...60. 1961 Flight of Yuri Gagarin
...89. 1927 Baseball player Babe Ruth sets record of 60 runs.
            in one match
...98. 1986 Chernobyl.