January 15 in history: • 1867 – In Regent's Park, London, the ice on the lake broke, plunging skaters into the water and causing 40 deaths from drowning or hypothermia. → go there • 1910 – Construction was completed on the Buffalo Bill Dam, then the tallest dam in the world, on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming. → go there • 1951 – Ilse Koch, wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the Nazi commander of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court. → go there • 1962 – The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece. → go there • 1970 – The Republic of Biafra surrendered following a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria, ending the Nigerian Civil War. → go there • 2001 – The first edit to the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia was made. → go there Died 1876: Eliza McCardle Johnson Wiki link Born 1987: Tsegaye Kebede Wiki link Born 2004: Grace VanderWaal Wiki link Died 2025: David Lynch Wiki link Pictured: Fragment of the Derveni papyrus.