“Nobody told me there’d be days like these…” Remembering John Lennon (on this day in history…)

Originally posted on If It Happened Yesterday, It's History:

John Lennon was fatally shot by Mark Chapman at the entryway of his The Dakotahome, in New York City, on this day in 1980, just moments after having returned from the Record Plant Studio. He was sadly pronounced dead on arrival to St. Luke’s Roosevelt hospital. (A week earlier I had celebrated my ninth birthday and was given as a gift my first John Lennon album Double Fantasy. I was devastated.)

When the news report went out very...