• On Jan. 13, 1995, America3 (“America Cubed”), an all-female sailing team, won the first race of the America’s Cup defender trials in little more than a minute. The team was the sport’s first all-women crew to compete in the Cup’s 144-year history.
• On Jan. 15, 1951, Ilse Koch, known as the “Witch of Buchenwald” for the extraordinary sadism she displayed toward that camp’s prisoners, was sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity by a West German court. The sentence was reduced to four years and Koch was released, then imprisoned again with a second life term. She escaped that fate by hanging herself with a bedsheet in 1967.
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