The Most Important Events That Changed History Forever

Shooting of John Lennon (1980)

John Lennon was an English peace activist and musician who became world-famous as the founder of the Beatles. Lennon was shot and killed in the archway of his Manhattan apartment building by a Beatles fan, Mark David Chapman. Lennon has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (in 1997) and twice in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as both a member of the Beatles in 1988 and a solo artist in 1994).

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