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1963 in Northern Ireland

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1963
in
Northern Ireland

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Events during the year 1963 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

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Events

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  • 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

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Football

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Winners: Distillery
Winners: Linfield 2 – 1 Distillery

Golf

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Births

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "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.