Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Freddie Laker |
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Birthdate | August 06, 1922 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 102 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Freddie Laker is best known as Entrepreneur who has born on August 06, 1922 in England. Currently, Freddie Laker is 102 years, 2 months and 27 days old. Freddie Laker will celebrate 103rd birthday on Wednesday, 6th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Freddie Laker upcoming birthday.
Best known as the founder of an Independent British airline called Laker Airways, this entrepreneur also established the Air Charter, Aviation Traders, and Channel Air Bridge companies.
After being forced to leave the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, he worked for an aviation company called Short Brothers before joining the Air Transport Auxiliary during the World War II years.
In Laker's honor, Virgin Atlantic named one of its airplane models "The Spirit of Sir Freddie."
He was married four times -- to Joan Laker (for over twenty-five years); Rose Marie Black (for nearly a decade); Patricia Gates (during the late 1970s and early 1980s) and Jacqueline Harvey (from 1985 until his death in 2006) -- and fathered a total of four children.
United States President Jimmy Carter authorized Laker to conduct a one-year trial of his proposed Skytrain program, which, before it went bankrupt in 1982, allowed passengers to travel directly from London to New York for a cost of between thirty-two and thirty-seven English Pounds.
Freddie Laker is 102 years old today.
Freddie Laker was born on August 06, 1922 in England.
Freddie Laker zodiac sign is Leo.
Freddie Laker was best known as Entrepreneur.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Freddie Laker's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Freddie Laker's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1962 | Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
1965 | US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. |
1986 | A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
1990 | Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. |
1991 | Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet. |
1991 | Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives. |
1996 | The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA. |
1996 | NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms. |
1997 | Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board. |
2001 | Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu. |
2008 | A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. |
2010 | Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people. |
2011 | War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan. |
2012 | NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars. |
2015 | A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha. |
1979 | The birth of Jaime Correa, Mexican footballer |
1979 | The birth of Travis Reed, American basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater |
1983 | The birth of Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer |
1984 | The birth of Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer |
1984 | The birth of Maja Ognjenović, Serbian volleyball player |
1984 | The birth of Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer |
1985 | The birth of Mickaël Delage, French cyclist |
1985 | The birth of Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer |
1985 | The birth of Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer |
1986 | The birth of Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player |
1987 | The birth of Leanne Crichton, Scottish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer |
1995 | The birth of Rebecca Peterson, Swedish tennis player |
1999 | The birth of Rebeka Masarova, Spanish-Swiss tennis player |
2012 | The death of Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist and educator (b. 1918) |
2012 | The death of Dan Roundfield, American basketball player (b. 1953) |
2013 | The death of Stan Lynde, American author and illustrator (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Mava Lee Thomas, American baseball player (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Jerry Wolman, American businessman (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Ralph Bryans, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Ananda W.P. Guruge, Sri Lankan scholar and diplomat (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Ray Hill, American football player (b. 1975) |
2015 | The death of Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (b. 1924) |
2017 | The death of Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (b. 1938) |
2017 | The death of Darren Daulton, American baseball player (b. 1962) |
2018 | The death of Joël Robuchon, French Chef (b. 1945) |
2018 | The death of Margaret Heckler, American politician (b. 1931) |
2018 | The death of Anya Krugovoy Silver, American poet (b. 1968) |
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Wikipedia | Freddie Laker on Wikipedia |
Website | Freddie Laker's Webiste |
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