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John Winston Lennon was born on 9 October 1940 in the Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Oxford Street, Liverpool, to Julia Lennon (née Stanley) and Alfred "Freddie" Lennon.
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"At about 8 a.m., Japanese planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor. Bombs and bullets rained onto the vessels moored below. At 8:10, a 1,800-pound bomb smashed through the deck of the battleship USS Arizona and landed in her forward ammunition magazine. The ship exploded and sank with more than 1,000 men trapped inside. " History.Com Staff. n.d. History.Com. Accessed August 28, 2018. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor#.
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"On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine." History.com Staff. 2009. History.Com. Accessed August 28, 2018. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe.
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Aunt Mimi becomes John's Guardian and teacher of banjo chords. She was John's mothers older sister. " Julia was very fond of music and quite musical herself; she taught John how to play banjo and would play Elvis Presley records when he visited. Presley would have a massive influence on John's musical development as a teenager." Beatles Day by Day Staff. 2015. Beatles Day by Day. Accessed August 28, 2018. https://www.beatlesbyday.com/.
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Stalin blocks access to Berlin. After World War Two, the allies divided Berlin into four sections. Stalin creates a blockade the isolates the sections controlled by the United States, Britain, and France.
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"John recognized in Paul the same passion Paul had detected in John during his earlier onstage performance. Soon Paul was teaching a rapt John how to tune his guitar and writing out the chords and lyrics to some of the songs he’d just played." History.com Staff. 2009. History.com. Accessed August 28, 2018. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-meets-paul-for-the-first-time.
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Their entrance into the school in 1957 sparked a nationwide crisis when Arkansas governor Orval Faubus, in defiance of a federal court order, called out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the Nine from entering. Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture Staff. 2010. Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. Accessed August 28, 2018. www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryid=723.
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After using such names as Beatals and the Silver Beetles they finally settled on "The Beatles"
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Sitting in a Lincoln convertible, the Kennedys and Connallys waved at the large and enthusiastic crowds gathered along the parade route. As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally.
- History.com. Accessed August 28, 2018. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-f-kennedy-assassinated.
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n February 9, 1964, the British Invasion began with The Beatles playing live on The Ed Sullivan Show in front of an estimated 73 million Americans. Ed Sullivan introduced The Beatles, and was almost immediately drowned out by the screams of girls in the studio audience Edsullivan.com staff. 2010. Edsullivan.com. Accessed August 28, 2018. www.edsullivan.com/the-beatles-american-debut-on-the-ed-sullivan-show-1964-2/.
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"Operation Starlite was the first offensive military action conducted by a purely U.S.military unit during the Vietnam War...U.S. Marines were deployed by helicopter insertion into the designated landing zone while an amphibious landing was used to deploy other Marines, including a flamethrower platoon." Vietnam War Information Staff. 2018. Vietnam War Information. Accessed August 28, 2018. http://vietnamwarinformation1.weebly.com/operation-starlite-ndash-august-18ndash24-1965.html.
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"On March 20th 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. The couple had tried unsuccessfully to tie the knot in Paris a few days earlier, but they were required to be residing in France for at least 2 weeks before they could be wed there. " Beatles Day by Day Staff. 2015. Beatles Day by Day. Accessed August 28, 2018. https://www.beatlesbyday.com/.
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The question “Is this album a rest away from the Beatles or the start of a solo career?” and its subsequent response, “Time will tell. Being a solo album means it’s ‘the start of a solo career…’ and not being done with the Beatles means it’s just a rest. So it’s both.” (Paul McCartney) Live for Live Music Staff. 2018. Live for LIve Music. April 9. Accessed August 28, 2018. https://liveforlivemusic.com/features/the-story-behind-the-end-of-the-beatles-on-this-day-in-1970/
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‘Give Peace A Chance’ was recorded on June 1st and 2nd in room 1742 of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada during John & Yoko’s second Bed-In for Peace. The B-Side, ‘Remember Love’ is a song written by Yoko and recorded in the same room. John Lennon.com Staff. 2018. John Lennon.com. Accessed August 28, 2018. http://www.johnlennon.com/music/singles/give-peace-a-chance/.
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Lennon was the subject of FBI investigations for being anti war and a possible communist by J. Edgar Hoover LennonFBIfiles.com staff. 2006. LennonFBIfiles.com. Accessed August 2018, 2018. http://lennonfbifiles.com/
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John and Yoko guest host "The Mike Douglas Show" and play with Chuck Berry https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=john+lenno+chuck+berry&view=detail&mid=F67F2DA22700EACF8550F67F2DA22700EACF8550&FORM=VIRE
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"the prowlers were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been caught wiretapping phones and stealing documents. Nixon took aggressive steps to cover up the crime afterwards, and in August 1974, after his role in the conspiracy was revealed, Nixon resigned." History.com staff. 2009. History.com. Accessed August 28, 2018. https://www.history.com/topics/watergate.
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North Vietnamese troops finally captured Saigon on April 30, 1975. South Vietnam surrendered the same day. After thirty years of conflict, Ho Chi Minh’s vision of a united, communist Vietnam had been realized. Thoughtco.com staff. 2018. Thoughtco.com. Accessed August 28, 2018. https://www.thoughtco.com/vietnam-war-end-of-the-conflict-2361333.
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Released just days before his murder.
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"news was probably broken by a disc jockey reading from the sketchy initial bulletin that came over the Associated Press newswire shortly after 11:25 p.m., Eastern Standard Time: “There’s a report that John Lennon has been shot. It happened in New York. On the Upper West Side.”
- History.com. Accessed August 28, 2018. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-lennon-is-assassinated-in-new-york-city
