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On the night of 8 December 1980, John Lennon was shot at the Dakota on Manhattan’s Upper West Side as he returned with Yoko Ono from a recording session. Earlier that day, Mark David Chapman had waited outside and obtained Lennon’s autograph on a copy of Double Fantasy. When Lennon and Ono came back that evening, Chapman fired five shots at close range, fatally wounding Lennon, who collapsed in the lobby and was pronounced dead on arrival at Roosevelt Hospital. The killing, planned over months, triggered worldwide grief, memorial gatherings, and a global request for 10 minutes of silence.
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