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Monarch - Elizabeth II16 March - Passenger liner SS Canberra is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast (for P&O).6 April - Short SC.1 VTOL research aircraft makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight and back, flying from Belfast Harbour Airport.13 April - MV Arlanza becomes the last passenger liner launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast (for Royal Mail Line).Arts and literature
26 January - First staging of Sam Thompson's play Over the Bridge, at the Empire Theatre, Belfast.13–18 February - Orson Welles opens for the last time in a stage production, his adaptation Chimes at Midnight with the Gate Theatre Company, at the Grand Opera House, Belfast (transferring in March to Dublin).Irish LeagueIrish Cup23 April - Barry Douglas, classical pianist.30 April - Colonel Tim Collins British Commander in Iraq.6 May - Roma Downey, actress and producer.13 May - Michael Savage, Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament.7 July - Billy Wright, former leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (died 1997).27 August - Mark Caughey, footballer.29 August - Dominic Bradley, SDLP MLA.29 August - Thomas Burns, SDLP MLA.10 October - Arlene McCarthy, Labour Party Member of the European Parliament.25 November - Robert Dunlop, motorcycle racer (died 2008).10 December - Kenneth Branagh, actor and director.Peter Heather, historian.Deirdre Madden, author.Ian McDonald, science fiction novelist.Jeff McWhinney, deaf community activist.9 March - Jack Beattie, Labour politician (born 1886).13 June - Ken McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (born 1881).20 July - Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore, soldier and Deputy Lieutenant for County Fermanagh (born 1913).1 September - Robert Moore, minister of religion and politician (born 1886).25 October - Harry Ferguson, early aviator and developer of the modern agricultural tractor (born 1884).1960 in Northern Ireland Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
