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Born in Liverpool to Julia Stanley and Alfred Lennon during a blitzkrieg attack.
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John Lenon gets his first guitar at the age of 16 from his aunt who stated that even though he had mad playing skills, he would never be able to make a living out of it.
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John asks Paul McCartney to join the Quarrymen while playing at a church fair in Liverpool.
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George Harrison, a friend of Paul, joins the Quarrymen.
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.John's mother is killed by an auto while crossing the road.
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The Beatles, with John Lennon as front man, debut at Liverpool's Cavern Club.
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Record store manager Brian Epstein is introduced to the Beatles.
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John marries Cynthia Powell.
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The Beatles play to a crowd of over 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City
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On the evening of 27 August 1965, Elvis Presley and The Beatles, the music world's biggest stars, met for the first and only time.
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John states that the Beatles are more popular than Jesus, setting off a backlash against the group and spurring the public burning of Beatle albums.
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John meets Yoko Ono at a preview of her art show, Exhibition #2, at London's Indica Gallery.
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John and Cynthia are divorced.
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The experimental tapes of various sound effects made in May of 1968 is released as an album titled Two Virgins, the cover of which shows John and Yoko posing nude. The album is released in a brown paper wrap.
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John and Yoko are married on Gibraltar.
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John and Yoko stage a "bed-in" for peace at the Amsterdam Hilton to celebrate their marriage
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Give Peace a Chance" is recorded at a bed-in in Montreal.
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John records "Imagine" at his home studio at Tittenhurst Park.
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Senator Strom Thurmond tells Attorney General John Mitchell that John should be deported because he consorts with known radicals such as Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman.
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John and Yoko buy an apartment in the Dakota Building on Central Park West and W. 72nd St.
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John Lennon is assassinated outside the Dakota.
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John is inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist.
