John Lennon is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Lennon rose to international fame as a member of The Beatles, and later lived in New York City, where he was assassinated by Mark David Chapman in 1980.
Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay colony
The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony banishes Roger Williams for religious dissent. Williams would found the Rhode Island colony, where he preached the "wall of separation" between the church and the state.
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