Events during the year 1963 in Northern Ireland.
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Incumbents
edit- Governor - The Lord Wakehurst
- Prime Minister - Basil Brooke (until 25 March), Terence O'Neill (from 25 March)
Events
edit- 17 January – Prototype Short SC.7 Skyvan short-haul freighter first flies.
- 25 March – Terence O'Neill succeeds Viscount Brookeborough as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
- 23 September – British Enkalon synthetic fibre factory opens in Antrim.
- 2 October – Second Short SC.1 VTOL research aircraft (XG905), flying from Belfast Harbour Airport, crashes due to a control malfunction, killing the pilot, J. R. Green.[1]
- 28 October – Belfast Aldergrove opened as the principal airport for Northern Ireland, civilian facilities transferring from Nutts Corner.
Arts and literature
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Sport
editFootball
edit- Winners: Distillery
- Winners: Linfield 2 – 1 Distillery
Golf
edit- British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: Brigitte Varangot).
Births
edit- 10 July – Conor Murphy, Sinn Féin MP and MLA.
- 30 July – Thomas Buchanan, Democratic Unionist Party MLA.
- 9 August – Sam Storey, boxer.
- 25 August – Candida Doyle, keyboard player.
- 12 October – Alan McDonald, footballer and football manager.
- 27 October – Johnny Adair, loyalist paramilitary.
- 11 December
- 15 December – Christopher "Crip" McWilliams, Chief of Staff of the Irish National Liberation Army.
- Richard English, historian.
- Siobhán O'Hanlon, Sinn Féin official (died 2006).
Deaths
edit- 22 November – C. S. Lewis, novelist and author of The Chronicles of Narnia (born 1898).
- 30 November – Dehra Parker, longest serving woman MP in Northern Ireland and first woman to serve in the Northern Ireland Cabinet.
- December – Andy Kennedy, footballer (born 1897).
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Test Flying Memorial site of British test pilots and engineers who died while test-flying (1946–1970 page)". Testflyingmemorial.com. Archived from the original on 18 June 2009.