John Lennon was born on 9 October 1940 in Liverpool Maternity Hospital. A British musician and songwriter, Lennon co-founded The Beatles in Liverpool and wrote many of their best-known songs in partnership with Paul McCartney. After the band split in 1970 he pursued a solo career, releasing albums such as John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, whose title song became an anthem for peace. With his wife Yoko Ono he staged public peace protests, including the bed-ins of 1969, and he moved to New York in the 1970s. After a break from music to raise his son, he returned to recording in 1980. He was shot and killed outside his apartment building in Manhattan on the evening of 8 December 1980.
Before and after
- 12 September 1940Lascaux
- 20 September 1940Birth of Tarō Asō
- 23 September 1940Birth of Michel Temer
- 27 September 1940Tripartite Pact
- 9 October 1940Birth of John Lennon
- from 19 October 1940 to 24 October 1940Official visit by Heinrich Himmler to Spain
- 21 October 1940Publication of For Whom the Bell Tolls
- 23 October 1940Birth of Pelé
- from 28 October 1940 to 1 June 1941World War II in the Balkans
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The era
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