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Incumbents
Events
- 16 March - Belfast Harbour Airport at Sydenham is opened, with the inaugural commercial flight to Glasgow.[1]
- 17 March - British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Belfast (C35) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
- 24 May - The new Anti-Partition Party takes eight seats in a Unionist-controlled Londonderry Corporation.
Arts and literature
- Louis MacNeice publishes I Crossed the Minch and his poetry The Earth Compels.[2]
Sport
Football
- Winners: Belfast Celtic
- Winners: Belfast Celtic 2 - 0 Bangor
Births
- 20 January - Derek Dougan, footballer (died 2007).
- 21 January - Ken Maginnis, Baron Maginnis of Drumglass, Ulster Unionist Party politician.
- 16 February - Sammy Chapman, footballer and football manager.
- 17 March - Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh.
- 3 April - Raymond Hunter, cricketer.
- 7 May - John Caldwell, boxer.
- 26 May - May Blood, Baroness Blood, community activist.
- 1 June - Desmond Boyd, community activist.
- 25 July - Ken Kirkpatrick, cricketer.
- 28 August - Dick Creith, motorcycle road racer.
Deaths
- 12 December - James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State (born 1869).
References
- ↑ "Airport History". George Best Belfast City Airport. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
- ↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
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