What Day Was the death of John Lennon?

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Former Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York City apartment building, the Dakota, by Mark David Chapman, who had earlier obtained Lennon's autograph on a copy of his newly released album the same day.

News of Lennon's death was announced live on US television during a Monday Night Football broadcast, a widely remembered moment for many Americans who first learned of it that way.

Vigils were held worldwide in the days that followed, and Lennon's final album, released just weeks before his death, saw a surge in sales afterward.

Lennon had spent much of the mid-to-late 1970s away from the public eye raising his son, making his newly released comeback album shortly before his death a genuinely closely watched return to music.