On This Day... it was a tragic moment in history when John Lennon, the English singer, and former Beatle was shot dead aged 40 in New York in 1980, the Australian production of Phantom of the Opera premiered in Melbourne in 1990, USSR ceased to exist in 1991, Oprah Winfrey arrived in Australia in 2010, and Ken Sutcliffe presented his final sports report on Channel 9 news in 2016.

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