On this day, December 8, 1980, John Lennon of the Beatles, was shot and fatally wounded outside of his home in the Dakota, in New York City. Lennon was shot and killed
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Former Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed 41 years ago in New York City on 8 December 1980. Lennon, who was 40, was entering his Manhattan apartment building on New York’s Upper East