12 May in US history. Ironing board. The first president on video. Keyboard Dvorak. Emilio Estevez and Stephen Baldwin.

Today is Windmill Day, Nonsense Day and Secretary Day at Reception. Read today about how they came up with the odometer, who came to the aid of American alcoholics, and how women influenced the names of hurricanes.

1. 1847 While traveling across the plains of Utah, inventor William Clayton came up with the "roadometer" - the modern odometer. On the road, Clayton got tired of counting the days and the revolutions of the cart wheels. The inventor attached a set of special wooden teeth he created to the wheel hub, which began to count not only miles, but also quarter miles.

2. 1874 American Elijah McCoy patented the world's first ironing board. McCoy is also responsible for many other useful inventions in the railway industry. Legend has it that the famous phrase “the real McCoy” refers to the prolific Elijah McCoy.

3. 1903 year. President Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt) became the first president, whose official activities were recorded on film. The cameraman shot the president's trip to San Francisco, where a parade was held in honor of Roosevelt. Resulting
a short film later entered the cinema rental nationwide.

4. 1935 year. William Griffith Wilson, a stockbroker, and Robert Holbrook Smith, a physician, founded the Alcoholics Anonymous Society. And he and the other for many years suffered from alcoholism.

5. 1936 Two computer scientists, August Dvorak and William Dealey, have patented a new keyboard layout - the American Simplified Keyboard, better known as the Dvorak keyboard. It was developed based on a study of the most commonly used letters and the physiological characteristics of the human hand. The Dvorak keyboard made it possible to increase typing speed, but compete in popularity with the QWERTY keyboard layout, created for decades
before, she could not.

6. 1962 Actor Emilio Estevez was born in New York, the son of actor Martin Sheen and brother of Charlie Sheen. He starred in such films as Surveillance, St. Elmo's Fire, Loaded Gun, Young Guns and others. Interesting facts about the actor:
unlike brother refused to take the father’s stage name - Shin.

7. 1966 The youngest brother from the Baldwin family of actors, Stephen Baldwin, was born in New York. The actor is known for the films “8 Seconds”, “Crash”, “Protection”. Interesting facts about the actor: he met his future wife in the subway, he is the owner
dogs of the Siberian Keyshond breed; writes poems; enjoys extreme sports - auto racing, jumping from great heights with an elastic rope, skydiving; is the face of Calvin Klein's fashion house and wears only his shirts; considers himself a complete “dummy” in the field of computer literacy.

8. 1978 year. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began to assign male names to hurricanes. Until that time, exclusively female ones were used. Changes had to be made after the beautiful half of humanity began to protest against the fact that only their names are associated with disaster by society.

9. 2003 year. In San Francisco, California, 10 cows fell from a cliff with a height of 50 feet (15,2 m). Two animals had to be put to sleep, the rest were safe and sound, writes AmericaRu.com