'Mandy' by Barry Manilow peaks at #6 in USA 50 years ago today (Jan 18 1975)

Jan 18 1935: an additional 98 individuals were sentenced, 19 to prison and 79 to exile, for playing a role in the assassination of Sergei Kirov as Josef Stalin ruled unchallenged throughout Soviet Russia.
Jan 18 1945: The last 60,000 remaining inmates of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Monowitz, and workers in area factories are ordered evacuated west.&nbsp; Some go by rail, some in massed death marches in freezing temperatures for hundreds of kilometers.&nbsp; 7,600 too sick to travel remain.
Jan 18 2005: The world’s largest commercial jet, the Airbus A380 “superjumbo” capable of flying up to 800 passengers, was unveiled in Toulouse, France.

(Saturday, January 18, 1975) — “Mandy” by Barry Manilow peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.

It was Manilow’s first of three number one hits on the chart (1975-1977).

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