1928 in Brazil

Events in the year 1928 in Brazil .

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Washington Luís
• Vice President: Fernando de Melo Viana

Governors

• Alagoas:
  • till 7 June: Pedro da Costa Rego
  • 7 June-12 June: José Julio Cansanção
  • from 12 June: Álvaro Correia Pais
• Amazonas: Ifigênio Ferreira de Sales
• Bahia: Góis Calmon (till 18 March); Vital Soares (from 19 March)
• Ceará: José Moreira da Rocha (till 19 May); Eduardo Henrique Girão (19 May - 12 July); José Carlos de Matos Peixoto (from 12 July)
• Goiás: Brasil Caiado
• Maranhão: José Magalhães de Almeida
• Mato Grosso: Mário Correia da Costa
• Minas Gerais: Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada
• Pará: Dionísio Bentes
• Paraíba:
  • till 22 October: João Suassuna
  • from 22 October: João Pessoa Cavalcanti
• Paraná: Caetano Munhoz da Rocha; Afonso Camargo
• Pernambuco: Estácio Coimbra
• Piauí:
  • till 1 July: Matias Olímpio de Melo
  • from 1 July: João de Deus Pires Leal
• Rio Grande do Norte: Juvenal Lamartine de Faria
• Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros (till 25 January); Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (from 25 January) ^[1]
• Santa Catarina: Adolf Konder
• São Paulo: Júlio Prestes ^[2]
• Sergipe: Manuel Correia Dantas

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Inácio (starting 1 January)
• São Paulo: Heitor Teixeira Penteado

Events

• 22 July - The Estádio Parque São Jorge football stadium in São Paulo is inaugurated. ^[3]
• 10 August - The ETA – Empresa de Transporte Aéreo airline is founded; it remains in operation for only a year. ^[4]
• 3 December - Disaster of the Dornier J 'Santos Dumont'. ^[5]
• date unknown - The Liberator Party (Brazil) is founded for the first time, by members of the Rio Grande do Sul Federalist Party, notably Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil.

Arts and culture

Books

• Mário de Andrade - Macunaíma
• Oswald de Andrade - Manifesto Antropófago

Births

• 6 January - Carlos Manga, film director (died 2015)
• 1 March - Maurício do Valle, actor (died 1994)
• 13 March - Paulo Ribenboim, mathematician ^[6]
• 19 March - Dequinha, footballer (died 1997)
• 23 April - Martim Francisco, association football coach (died 1982)
• 1 May
  • Delfim Netto, economist, Minister of Finance, Agriculture and Planning of Brazil, professor and congressman
  • Marcelo Pinto Carvalheira, Roman Catholic archbishop (died 2017)
• 11 May - Dulce Figueiredo, wife of future Brazilian president João Figueiredo (died 2011)
• 21 June – Fiorella Mari, Brazilian-Italian actress (died 1983)
• 24 July – Jardel Filho, actor (died 1983)
• 13 August – Pedro Pedrossian, politician (died 2017)
• 15 August – Manfredo do Carmo, mathematician (died 2018)
• 24 September - Aldo Vannucchi, academic
• 22 October - Nelson Pereira dos Santos, film director (died 2018) ^[7]

Deaths

• 30 June - Landell de Moura, Roman Catholic priest and inventor (born 1861) ^[8]

References

1. Watkins, Thayer. "Getulio Vargas and the Estado Nôvo". San José State University Department of Economics. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
2. Jesus, Carolina (1998). Bitita's diary : the childhood memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe. p. 116. ISBN   9781317475859.
3. Enciclopédia do Futebol Brasileiro, Volume 2 - Lance, Rio de Janeiro: Aretê Editorial S/A, 2001.
4. Palhano Barbosa, Nair (1996). Nas asas da história: Lembranças da Panair do Brasil (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Agir. p. 10. ISBN   85-220-0467-6.
5. "A catastrophe do hydro-avião "Santos Dumont"" [The catastrophe of the Santos Dumont Seaplane]. Folha da Manhã. Vol. Ano IV, no. 1297. December 4, 1928. pp. 1, 4–5. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
6. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "1928 in Brazil", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive , University of St Andrews
7. Darlene J. Sadlier: Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Contemporary Film Directors), University of Illinois Press, 2003, ISBN   0-252-07112-3
8. A Tribute and a Brief Biography Archived 2014-04-05 at the Wayback Machine

See also

• 1928 in Brazilian football