On This Day:
Tuesday January 13, 2015 This is the 13th day of the year, with 352 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: food travel Once food is chewed, voluntary muscles move it to the throat. In the pharynx (throat), automatic involuntary reflexes take over. The epiglottis closes over the larynx (voice box), which leads to the windpipe. A sphincter at the top of the esophagus relaxes, allowing the food to enter the digestive tract. Semi-digested food stays in the stomach 3-5 hours and it is slowly released to the rest of the digestive tract. Fifteen hours or more after the first bite, the final residue is passed along to the rectum/anus for expulsion.
Holidays Feast day of St. Hilary of Poitiers, St. Agrecius, and St. Berno.
Sweden: St. Knut's Day
Switzerland: Silvesterklause or Meitlisunntig.
Norway: Tyvendedagen or tjugandedagen
Togo: National Liberation Day.
Russia: Old New Year's Eve.
Events 1893 - Britain's Independent Labor Party (a precursor to the current Labor Party) held its first meeting. It was formed by Keir Hardie.
1910 - Opera was broadcast on the radio for the first time - Enrico Caruso singing from the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
1931 - The bridge connecting New York and New Jersey was named the George Washington Memorial Bridge.
1955 - Chase National and the Bank of Manhattan agreed to merge, resulting in the second largest U.S. bank.
1964 - Capitol Records released the Beatles' first single in the USA; "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" sold one million copies in the first three weeks.
1966 - Robert C. Weaver was appointed to the U.S. cabinet as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, becoming the first African-American to attain an executive-branch post.
1990 - L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia took the oath of office, becoming the nation's first elected black governor.
1992 - Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II.
2000 - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stepped aside as chief executive and promoted company president Steve Ballmer to the position.
Births 1808 - Salmon P. Chase, U.S. Treasury Secretary, sixth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
1834 - Horatio Alger, American author.
1884 - Sophie Tucker, American vaudeville singer.
1885 - Alfred Fuller, American businessman, founder of Fuller Brush Company.
1926 - Michael Bond, English author, creator of the Paddington Bear stories.
Deaths 1941 - James Joyce, Irish novelist.
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