Thursday Thirteen #1 - Things that happened on my birthday

My very first Thursday Thirteen! This is a mashup of Thursday Thirteen and another birthday meme going around. These are things that happened on January 4th through history:

1. 1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey.
2. 1643 - Sir Isaac Newton born, English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727)
3. 1785 - Jakob Grimm born, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1863)
4. 1809 - Louis Braille born, French inventor of braille^[1] (d. 1852)
5. 1885 - The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
6. 1896 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
7. 1960 - Albert Camus dies, Algerian-born French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
8. 1961 - Erwin Schrödinger dies, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
9. 1967 - I was born!
10. 1970 - The Beatles record as a band for the last time.
11. 1990 - Doc Edgerton dies, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
12. 2007 - The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
13. Every year - Trivia Day and Humiliation Day

Find yours by typing your birth month and day with no year into wikipedia and also check out Holidays for Everyday.