1939 in Brazil
| 1939 in Brazil |
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| Flag |
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| Timeline of Brazilian history |
| Vargas Era |
| Year of Constitution: 1937 |
Events in the year 1939 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Alagoas: Osman Laurel
- Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
- Bahia: Landulfo Alves
- Ceará: Francisco de Meneses Pimentel
- Espírito Santo: João Punaro Bley
- Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
- Maranhão:
- Mato Grosso: Júlio Strübing Müller
- Minas Gerais: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro
- Pará: José Carneiro da Gama Malcher
- Paraíba: Argemiro de Figueiredo
- Paraná: Manuel Ribas
- Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
- Piauí: Leônidas Melo
- Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão
- Rio Grande do Sul: Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias
- Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
- São Paulo: Ademar de Barros
- Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho
Vice governors
- Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
- São Paulo: no vice governor
Events
- 27 June – The municipality of Canoas obtains city status.
- 30 November – Serra dos Órgãos National Park is created
- 5 December – The Imperial Mausoleum is officially inaugurated at the Cathedral of Petrópolis.[1]
Arts and culture
Films
- El Grito de la juventud (Argentine film directed by Brazilian director Raul Roulien)
Music
Births
- 2 February - Maximira Figueiredo, actress (died 2018)
- 8 February - Jonas Bloch, actor
- 14 March - Glauber Rocha, film director, actor and writer (died 1981).[2]
- 30 April - Axel Schmidt-Preben, Olympic sailor[3] (died 2018)
- 13 June - Antônio Pitanga, actor
- 26 July - Heloísa Teixeira, writer (died 2025)
- 16 October - Suely Franco, actress and entertainer
Deaths
- 19 April - Lucílio de Albuquerque, painter (born 1887).[4]
- 16 October - Malvina Tavares, anarchist, poet, and educator (born 1866)
- 25 November - Odette Vidal de Oliveira, candidate for beatification (born 1930).[5]
References
- ↑ Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 By Daryle Williams, p x
- ↑ "GLAUBER ROCHA IS DEAD AT 42; INNOVATIVE BRAZILIAN DIRECTOR (Published 1981)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2022-08-26.
- ↑ "Olympics". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- ↑ Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 By Daryle Williams, pg 263
- ↑ "Beatification process of Brazilian girl begins", (AP), KHOU, Houston, Texas Archived March 11, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
See also
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