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Historical Events for 13th January 2026
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
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