Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | John Boyd |
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Birthdate | January 23, 1927 |
Birth Place | Pennsylvania |
Age (in 2024) | 97 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | War Hero |
John Boyd is best known as War Hero who has born on January 23, 1927 in Pennsylvania. Currently, John Boyd is 97 years, 9 months and 29 days old. John Boyd will celebrate 98th birthday on Thursday, 23rd of January 2025. Below the countdown to John Boyd upcoming birthday.
After serving in the Korean and Vietnam wars, this American fighter pilot, flight instructor, and military theorist and tactical expert was hired by Major General Arthur C. Agan, Jr. as a high-level advisor and analyst at the U.S. Pentagon.
After earning a degree in economics from the University of Iowa and a degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech, he became a United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War. After returning from combat, he entered the prestigious Fighter Weapons School.
He is particularly remembered for his OODA Loop theory, which breaks down the elements of decision-making in high-risk combat situations, as well as for his theoretical division of warfare into moral, mental, and physical components. In the 1960s, he and mathematician Thomas Christie jointly devised an aerial combat principle known as the Energy-Maneuverability theory.
A native of Erie, Pennsylvania, he spent the later years of his life in West Palm Beach, Florida. He and his wife, Mary, raised daughters named Kathryn and Mary Ellen and sons named Scott, Jeff, and Stephen.
He and politician Gary Hart both allied themselves with the Defense Reform Movement of the 1970s and '80s.
John Boyd is 97 years old today.
John Boyd was born on January 23, 1927 in Pennsylvania.
John Boyd zodiac sign is Aquarius.
John Boyd was best known as War Hero.
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Below are historical events that coincided with John Boyd's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1967 | Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established. |
1967 | Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty-one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age. |
1968 | USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by the Korean People's Navy. |
1982 | World Airways Flight 30H overshoots the runway at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, and crashes into Boston Harbor. Two people are presumed dead. |
1986 | The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. |
1987 | Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan sends a "letter of death" to Somali President Siad Barre, proposing the genocide of the Isaaq people. |
1997 | Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. |
1998 | Netscape announces Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source. |
2001 | Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Chinese Communist Party to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution. |
2002 | U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered. |
2003 | A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted. |
2018 | A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities. |
2018 | A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, kills at least 33 people and wounds "dozens" of others. The victims include both military personnel and civilians, according to local officials. |
2018 | The China-United States trade war begins when President Donald Trump places tariffs on Chinese solar panels and washing machines. |
2022 | Mutinying Burkinabè soldiers led by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba depose and detain President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré amid widespread anti-government protests. |
1986 | The birth of Gelete Burka, Ethiopian runner |
1986 | The birth of Marc Laird, Scottish footballer |
1986 | The birth of José Enrique, Spanish footballer |
1986 | The birth of Steven Taylor, English footballer |
1986 | The birth of Sandro Viletta, Swiss skier |
1987 | The birth of Leo Komarov, Finnish ice hockey player |
1988 | The birth of Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Alex Silva, Canadian wrestler |
1991 | The birth of Steve Birnbaum, American footballer |
1992 | The birth of Reina Triendl, Japanese model and actress |
1994 | The birth of Addison Russell, American baseball player |
1995 | The birth of Luke Bateman, Australian rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Tuimoala Lolohea, New Zealand rugby league player |
1998 | The birth of XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018) |
2001 | The birth of Olga Danilović, Serbian tennis player |
2015 | The death of Ernie Banks, American baseball player and coach (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Prosper Ego, Dutch activist, founded the Oud-Strijders Legioen (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Jimmy Bain, Scottish bassist (b. 1947) |
2016 | The death of Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player and coach (b. 1921) |
2017 | The death of Bobby Freeman, American singer, songwriter and record producer (b. 1940) |
2017 | The death of Gorden Kaye, English actor (b. 1941) |
2018 | The death of Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, composer and singer (b. 1939) |
2018 | The death of Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (b. 1914) |
2018 | The death of Wyatt Tee Walker, American civil rights activist and pastor (b. 1928) |
2019 | The death of Aloysius Pang, Singaporean actor (b. 1990) |
2019 | The death of Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean Afro Jazz musician (b. 1952) |
2021 | The death of Hal Holbrook, American actor and director (b. 1925) |
2021 | The death of Larry King, American journalist and talk show host (b. 1933) |
2021 | The death of Song Yoo-jung, South Korean actress and model (b. 1994) |
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