The final months of John Lennon

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
10/23/1980	Mark David Chapman Quits his Job	Mark David Chapman quits his job as a security guard in Hawaii.
10/23/1980	John Lennon Single Released	John Lennon's first new single, (Just Like) Starting Over is released.
10/27/1980	The Murder Weapon	Mark Chapman buys the murder weapon, a .357 magnum, in a store in Honolulu, near where he lived at the time.
10/30/1980	Chapman heads to New York	Mark David Chapman boards a plane from Honolulu to New York. After finding out that bullets for his .357 magnum are illegal to sell in New York. So he flies to Atlanta where his friend, Dana Reeves gives him the bullets because he was told they were for his own personal protection in NY.
11/10/1980	Chapman in New York, AGAIN!	After getting bullets and seeing his friend in Georgia, Mark Chapman again comes to New York to kill John. However, he calls his wife to tell her that he is going to kill Lennon and she convinces him to not do it and come home. So he leaves New York again.
11/23/1980	Double Fantasy is Released	John Lennon's final album, Double Fantasy, is realeased
12/06/1980	Chapman in New York, 3rd Time!	After leaving NY two other times, Mark David Chapman is still having mental issues about wanting to kill Lennon. He flies out to New York, this time telling his wife it was a career move, checks into the YMCA and buys a copy of Double Fantasy, John's new album. He waits outside the Dakota for a few hours, before giving up and leaving a quarter of an hour before John Lennon got there.
12/07/1980	Stalking the Dakota	Chapman stalks the Dakota building where John lived at the time. But he still misses Lennon.
12/08/1980	Rolling Stones Photo Shoot	At 2:00 PM, Annie Leibovitz came to John and Yoko's apartment in the Dakota Building. Even though she wanted a picture of just John, he refused to do it without Yoko in the pictures for the cover. This was also the time of John's final interview
12/08/1980	Signing the Album	At about 5:00 PM, John Lennon was leaving his apartment to go to a studio to record for an upcoming album. On his way out there was a group of fans, Chapman was among them and John signed his copy of Double Fantasy. With too many people, he did not shoot.
12/08/1980	The Shooting	At 10:45 PM, John Lennon came back from a recording session. As he was walking up the stairs of the Dakota, Mark Chapman shot Lennon 5 times in the back, one bullet missing and four shots entered his back and exited his chest. Police came on the scene fast and brought John to Roosevelt Hospital and arrested Mark David Chapman for killing John Lennon. Mark David Chapman was reading "The Catcher in The Rye" by J.D. Salinger.
12/10/1980	John's Cremation	John was cremated
12/14/1980	Silence	Ten minutes of silence occurred around the world which was held to mourn for John.