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1699 - The publication of the decree by Peter I. "The observation of purity in Moscow and on the punishment for throwing litter and litter of all the streets and alleys»
The dirt, the mess and the stench was at that time quite wild, despite the fact that even when the father of Peter the first steps to restore order were made in the capital, there were street cleaners. On the territory of the Kremlin it was no better, especially after being placed on its territory boards established by Peter, with all their attendants.
This situation led to frequent epidemics, however, as in most European cities of the time.
Published by Peter decree obliged not to throw garbage and other waste in the streets, and take out of the city and covered with soil. For the violation - bitie whip and collection of fines. Repeated violations of the punishment was enhanced up to 10 rubles, which in those days was a lot of money. The situation has improved
It seems that the practice with a whip, at least we can be and to revive ...
1989 - Doug Engelbart Prize for inventing the computer mouse. Generally a mouse designed for hypertext database (NLS (oNLine System) and up to 80-ies of the last century for the public was not intended. Douglas, incidentally, was the author of the idea to all pop-up windows in the development of graphical user interface.
In general, the day is considered the birth of the mouse December 9, 1968, when Engelbart presented its product at a major conference in San Francisco.
The very same award for inventing a unique devaysa was ridiculously meager - $ 10,000. Only in 1997, Engelbart contribution to the development of computer technologies evaluated more adequately, prize award Lemelsona (500 000 dollars), and later - the Turing Award ...
