1733 – British officer James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina
1882 – Richard Wagner completes his final opera “Parsifal”
1919 – Dutch Soccer team OSV forms
1924 – Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections
1942 – Allied Conference on war trials at St. James’s Palace, London
1963 – 13th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: Eastern Conference beats Western Conference, 30-20; MVPs: Jim Brown, Cleveland Browns, RB; Eugene Lipscomb, Pittsburgh Steelers, DT
1968 – Minnesota North Stars NHL player Bill Masterson, suffers head injuries during a game and dies two days later, becoming the 1st player to die as result of a game
2017 – Cricket all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan scores Bangladesh’s top Test score ever (217) during the 1st Test v New Zealand in Wellington
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 12th January 2026
1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London
1912 – -47°F (-44°C), Washta, Iowa (state record)
1957 – Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded with Martin Luther King Jr. as leader at Ebenezer Church in Atlanta
1968 – Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd
1971 – 21st NBA All-Star Game, San Diego Sports Arena: West beats East, 108-107; MVP: Lenny Wilkens, Seattle SuperSonics, PG; oldest MVP in All-Star history (33); scores 21 points
1992 – A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
2007 – Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
2021 – India’s Supreme Court puts on hold three controversial new farm laws that ignited weeks of protests by farmers in Delhi
Historical Events for 11th January 2026
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War begins as British Lieutenant General Lord Chelmsford invades Zululand in South Africa
1894 – Donghak Peasant Rebellion begins in Mujiang, Korea over local corruption, sparking the 1st Sino-Japanese War
1942 – -23°F (-31°C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)
1943 – US and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
1962 – Landslide at dormant volcano Huascaran in Peru kills an estimated 4,000
1975 – Soviet Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1984 – Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game
2024 – More than 300 people have died in flooding caused by the highest levels of River Congo in 60 years, especially in Kinshasa, DR Congo
Historical Events for 10th January 2026
1917 – The Allied Governments respond to US President Woodrow Wilson’s December 1916 note, giving their terms for ending the war
1928 – George Gershwin, Sigmund Romberg and P. G. Wodehouse’s musical “Rosalie” premieres in New York
1952 – Cargo ship SS Flying Enterprise sinks in the English Channel after weeks of trying to salvage it
1965 – WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, Michigan (IND) begins broadcasting
1984 – Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew and Don Drysdale elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame
1997 – Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
1999 – Fatboy Slim’s music single “Praise You” hits #1 in the UK
2013 – 81 people are killed and 120 are wounded by a twin bombing in Quetta, Pakistan
Historical Events for 9th January 2026
1558 – Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
1947 – Providence Steamrollers guard Dino Martin becomes the first NBA player to ever score 40 points in a game, in a 91-68 win over Cleveland Rebels at Rhode Island Auditorium
1957 – Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
1991 – Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
1993 – Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100m free style (53.33)
2009 – Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Dominik Hrbatý beats Russia’s Marat Safin 6-7, 7-5, 7-6 for an unassailable 2-0 lead, and Slovakia’s 3rd title
2012 – “Time is Love” single released by Josh Turner (Billboard Song of the Year 2012)
Historical Events for 8th January 2026
1610 – German astronomer Simon Marius independently discovers Jupiter’s four largest moons one day after Galileo Galilei
1790 – First US President George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address
1833 – Boston Academy of Music, first US music school, is established
1857 – Dion Boucicauly’s “Poor of NY” premieres in NYC
1979 – Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord
1993 – Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
1993 – NBC offers “The Tonight Show” to David Letterman
1994 – Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60)
Historical Events for 7th January 2026
1325 – Afonso IV succeeds Denis as King of Portugal
1862 – Romney Campaign: Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, West Virginia
1930 – French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers francium (Fr), the last naturally occurring element discovered
1955 – 20 year-old future world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson scores a 5th-round TKO of Willie Troy in a non-title super middleweight bout at New York’s Madison Square Garden
1968 – Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off
1973 – British Darts Organisation founded in North London
1995 – Limited run of Patrick Stewart’s one-man show “A Christmas Carol”, based on Charles Dickens’ novel, closes at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC, after 18 performances
2012 – Hot air balloon crashes in Carterton, New Zealand, killing 11
Historical Events for 6th January 2026
1802 – Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland reach Quito, Ecuador
1842 – 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before reaching India
1870 – Inauguration of the Musikverein concert hall in Vienna, Austria; designed by Danish architect Theophil Hansen for the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna, built on land provided by Emperor Franz Joseph I
1922 – -13] Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
1950 – Britain recognizes Communist government of China
1969 – WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1975 – TV game show “Wheel of Fortune” debuts on NBC
1980 – AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Houston Oilers, 27-13
Historical Events for 5th January 2026
1809 – Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain and France
1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross sworn in as Governor of Wyoming, 1st woman governor in USA
1929 – Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
1930 – Bonnie Parker meets Clyde Barrow for the first time at Clarence Clay’s house
1941 – British Australian troops conquer Bardia, Libya
1990 – J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
1993 – Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (first legal hanging in America since 1965)
2020 – Iran pulls out of the 2015 nuclear deal, will not limit its uranium enrichment
Historical Events for 4th January 2026
1717 – Netherlands, Great Britain and France sign Triple Alliance
1906 – South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win
1934 – Premiere of the first Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen’s “Willem van Oranje”
1951 – Korean War: Chinese forces recapture Seoul
1967 – English land and boat racer Donald Campbell is killed while driving jet-powered boat Bluebird K7 on Coniston Water in England trying to beat his own water speed record
1986 – Los Angeles Rams running back Eric Dickerson scores twice as he rushes for an NFL postseason record 248 yards in 20-0 victory over Dallas Cowboys in NFC divisional playoff in Anaheim, California
1987 – Sixteen die in a train crash in Chase, Maryland
2018 – ‘Bomb Cyclone’ hits US Northeast prompting flooding and snow in New York subway system