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80 Iconic Moments from the 80s Forever In Our Minds

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70. Goodbye John Lennon

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John Lennon, one of the Beatles, was shot and killed at the entrance of his apartment building in New York City on December 8, 1980. A police car rushed him to the nearby Roosevelt Hospital, but he had already passed away upon arrival. Mourners all over the world gathered together in New York City to lament the passing of one of music’s all-time greatest legends.

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