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John Lennon

John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

Timeline of Events

1957

7.6.1957

John Lennon meets Paul McCartney at a fete in Woolton.

1969

3.25.1969

During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).

1980

10.29.1980

Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, leaves for New York from his home in Hawaii.

12.8.1980

John Lennon, an English musician and peace activist, is assassinated by Mark David Chapman, a mentally unstable fan, in front of the Dakota apartment building in New York City.

1981

8.24.1981

Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.