Ayatollah Khomeini was voted Time Magazine man of the year in 1979

Ayatollah Khomeini was voted Time Magazine man of the year in 1979. After Hitler was chosen Time Magazine’s man of the year in 1938, and Stalin in 1939 and 1942, the election of Ayatollah Khomeini as Time Magazine’s man of the year was another very controversial choice.

Time received a lot of public backlash in the United States for naming the Ayatollah Khomeini Man of the Year in 1979 and they have shied away from using figures that are controversial ever since. In 2001 the Time’s Person of the Year was Rudolph Giuliani the city mayor of New York, although the stated criteria of selection, the person(s) who have had the most significant effect on that year’s news, made Osama bin Laden a more likely choice because of the september 11 attacks.
Likewise they chose Einstein to be the man of the century instead if Hitler in 1999.

Source: Wikipedia.org

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