UPDATE - DECEMBER 8: John Lennon is assassinated / college radio broadcasts the show / "No More!" / Calm Down! / "40" to John Lennon / "Angel Of Harlem" is released.

"London Club" tour - december 8, 1979 - U2 perform in Camden, England at the Electric Ballroom as support for "The Talking Heads" and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark.

"Boy" tour - december 8, 1980 - U2 perform in Buffalo, New York at Stage One as support for a local trio called "Talas". That same night, John Lennon is assassinated just outside of Central Park in New York by a stalker.

"October" tour - december 8, 1981 - U2 perform in Cleveland, Ohio at The Agora. College radio station WRUW broadcasts the show, which is almost cancelled due to a major blizzard that drops over eight inches of snow hours before.

"Pre-War" tour - december 8, 1982 - U2 perform in Utrecht, Holland at Muziekcentrum Vredenburg. At the beginning of the show an audience member pelts the stage with fruit. Bono gets the crowd to sing "No More!" during "Sunday Bloody Sunday" for the first time. When the crowd sing along with the bit of "Merry Christmas" in "11 O´Clock Tick Tock", the band stop playing to listen to the crowd. Support is "Zerra I".

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - december 8, 1984 - U2 perform in Detroit, Michigan at the Fox Theater. During "Sunday Bloody Sunday" a near-riot breaks out with about 20 or so audience members fighting at the front of the stage. Bono screams over the drums of the song, "I won't have any fighting at a U2 concert! Just calm down in there! CALM DOWN! You know what this song is about! Sunday Bloody Sunday? It's a call not to violence, it's a call to the opposite! Are you listening to the song!" Support is "The Waterboys".

"The Joshua Tree" tour - december 8, 1987. U2 perform in Atlanta, Georgia at The Omni. The first night Bono dedicates "MLK"; "Seven years ago we got the news that John Lennon had been shot down. This is a song I dedicate to him and others whose lives are cut short by some violent motherf---er..." "Pride(In the Name of Love)" is dedicated to Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta and the people in the Martin Luther King Peace Center. Bono dedicates "40" to John Lennon. Support is "The BoDeans".

"ANGEL OF HARLEM" - december 8, 1988 - U2 release the 2nd single from "Rattle And Hum". Angel of Harlem (Remix) (3:47) / A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel (5:29) / Love Rescue Me (Live from London-Smile Jamaica, October 16, 1988) (5:24).