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Date Posted: 14:50:03 12/08/10 Wed
Author: Immaculate Conception in Roman Catholicism;
Subject: Constitution Day in Romania (1991); Bodhi Day in Japan

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John Lennon (1940–1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as a founding member of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon had a rebellious nature and acerbic wit. At the age of 16, he formed a skiffle group which would evolve into The Beatles in 1960. With bandmate Paul McCartney, he established the Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership, which provided the bulk of the Beatles' catalogue until the band dissolved at the end of the decade. Lennon then embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine. He became controversial through his work as a peace activist; his iconic songs, "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine", were adopted as anthems of the anti-war movement. In 1971, with his wife and muse Yoko Ono, he moved to New York City, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him. He took a sabbatical from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, re-emerging in 1980 with a new album, Double Fantasy, but was murdered on 8 December, three weeks after its release. (more...)

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December 8: Constitution Day in Romania (1991); Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Roman Catholicism; Bodhi Day in Japan


1432 – Lithuanian Civil War: The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis was fought near the modern town of Ashmyany.
1609 – Milan's Biblioteca Ambrosiana (pictured) opened its reading room to the public, becoming the second public library in Europe.
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2004 – Twelve South American countries signed the Cusco Declaration, announcing the foundation of what is now the Union of South American Nations, an intergovernmental union modelled after the European Union.
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