1969 in Brazil

Events in the year 1969 in Brazil .

Incumbents

Federal government

• President :
  • Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva (until 31 August)
  • Pedro Aleixo (from 31 August to 30 October, de jure)
  • Admiral Augusto Rademaker, General Aurélio de Lira Tavares and General Márcio Melo (from 31 August to 30 October, de facto)
  • General Emílio Garrastazu Médici (starting 30 October)
• Vice President :
  • Pedro Aleixo (until 31 August)
  • Vacant (from 31 August to October)
  • General Augusto Rademaker (from October 30)

Governors

• Acre : Vacant
• Alagoas : Antônio Simeão de Lamenha Filho
• Amazonas : Danilo Duarte de Matos Areosa
• Bahia : Luís Viana Filho
• Ceará : Plácido Castelo
• Espírito Santo : Cristiano Dias Lopes Filho
• Goiás : Otávio Lage
• Guanabara : Francisco Negrão de Lima
• Maranhão : Jose Sarney
• Mato Grosso : Pedro Pedrossian
• Minas Gerais : Israel Pinheiro da Silva
• Pará : Alacid Nunes
• Paraíba : João Agripino Maia
• Paraná : Pablo Cruz Pimentel
• Pernambuco : Nilo Coelho
• Piauí : Helvídio Nunes
• Rio de Janeiro : Geremias de Mattos Fontes
• Rio Grande do Norte : Walfredo Gurgel Dantas
• Rio Grande do Sul : Walter Peracchi Barcelos
• Santa Catarina : Ivo Silveira
• São Paulo : Roberto Costa de Abreu Sodré
• Sergipe : Lourival Baptista

Vice governors

• Alagoas : Manoel Sampaio Luz
• Amazonas :
  • Rui Arajuo (until 26 July)
  • Vacant thereafter (from 26 July)
• Bahia : Jutahy Magalhães
• Ceará : Humberto Ellery
• Espírito Santo : Isaac Lopes Rubim
• Goiás : Osires Teixeira
• Maranhão : Antonio Jorge Dino
• Mato Grosso : Lenine de Campos Póvoas
• Minas Gerais : Pio Soares Canedo
• Pará : João Renato Franco
• Paraíba : Antônio Juarez Farias
• Paraná : Plínio Franco Ferreira da Costa
• Pernambuco : Salviano Machado Filho
• Piauí : João Clímaco d'Almeida
• Rio de Janeiro : Heli Ribeiro Gomes
• Rio Grande do Norte : Clóvis Motta
• Santa Catarina : Jorge Bornhausen
• São Paulo : Hilário Torloni
• Sergipe : Vacant

Events

February

• February 26 : President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-7, which suspends elections for governors and mayors. ^[1]

March

• March 20 : The Brazilian Company of Posts and Telegraphs (ECT) is founded; a public company that replaces the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (DCT). ^[2]

April

• 16 April : Mobster Castor de Andrade is arrested for the second time. ^[3]

May

• Unknown Date: Castor de Andrade is released in the beginning of the month, after being detained on Ilha das Flores. This is the last time he's detained by the military regime. ^[3]

August

• 16 August : Embraer is created by the Brazilian government as a national champion for domestic aerospace technology. ^[4]
• 31 August : A military junta rules the country following the sudden illness of President Artur da Costa e Silva. The junta is made up of ministers Aurélio de Lira Tavares from the Army, Augusto Rademaker from the Navy, and Márcio de Sousa e Melo from the Air Force. ^[5]

September

• September 1 : The newscast Jornal Nacional on Rede Globo de Televisão premieres. ^[6]
• September 4 : The US Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, is kidnapped by two armed members of the revolutionary group MR-8 and the ALN, in Rio de Janeiro. ^[7]
• September 7 : US Ambassador to Brazil Charles Burke Elbrick is freed by armed members of the revolutionary group MR-8 in Rio de Janeiro. ^[8]
• September 18 : In Rio de Janeiro, the Provisional Governing Board signs a decree-law, establishing the new National Security Law. ^[9]

October

• October 15 : The three military ministers sign the Complementary Acts in Rio de Janeiro, which order the reopening of the National Congress of Brazil. ^[10]
• October 17 : The military junta promulgates Constitutional Amendment n°1, known as the 1969 Constitution. ^[11]
• October 25 : ARENA candidate Emílio Garrastazu Médici is elected President of Brazil by a joint session of Congress, specially reopened by AI-16 . ^[12]
• October 30 : Emílio Garrastazu Médici takes office as the 28th president of Brazil. ^[13]

November

• November 4 : Ação Libertadora Nacional leader Carlos Marighella is shot to death by DOPS agents in São Paulo. ^{[14] [15]}
• November 19 : Pelé scores his 1,000th goal for Santos, beating Vasco da Gama 2–1 at the Maracanã Stadium. ^[16]

Births

January

• 16 January: Daniela Escobar, actress and television presenter

April

• 30 April: Paulo Jr., bassist

June

• 30 June: Dira Paes, actress

July

• 25 July: David Brazil, promoter and actor

September

• 5 September: Leonardo, footballer
• 18 September: Gralak, footballer
• 26 September: Dan Stulbach, actor, television presenter, director and artistic director

November

• 11 November: Bismarck Barreto Faria, footballer

December

• 5 December: Jean Elias, footballer

Deaths

March

• 12 March: Adhemar de Barros, politician

July

• 10 July: João de Souza Mendes, chess master

September

• 6 September: Arthur Friedenreich, soccer player ^[17]

November

• 4 November: Carlos Marighella, Marxist revolutionary and writer
• 7 November: Cyro de Freitas Valle, lawyer

December

• 17 December: Artur da Costa e Silva, former president, heart attack

References

1. Ato Institucional suspende eleições (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (27 de fevvereiro de 1969).
2. DECRETO-LEI Nº 509, DE 20 DE MARÇO DE 1969., Planalto.
3. PASQUIM. Edição nº 599(1980), pp. 12-21.
4. 3 Anniversaries That Make August A Special Month For Embraer, Simple Flying (4 August 2023).
5. Costa e Silva enfermo; ministros militares assumem governo (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (1 de setembro de 1969).
6. Confira a história do JN, G1 Globo (4 December 2010).
7. Sequestrado na Guanabara o embaixador dos EUA no Brasil (página 5 do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (5 de setembro de 1969).
8. Elbrick conta os detalhes do sequestro (página 3 do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (9 de setembro de 1969).
9. Regulamentada a pena de morte (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (19 de setembro de 1969).
10. Governo reabre o Congresso (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (16 de outubro de 1969).
11. Outorgada a nova Constituição do País (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (18 de outubro de 1969).
12. Medici, já presidente, pede voto de confiança ao povo brasileiro (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (26 de outubro de 1969).
13. "Quero ser verdade, confiança e união" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (31 de outubro de 1969).
14. Marighella morre metralhado em São Paulo (primeira página do 1° caderno), Jornal do Brasil (5 de novembro de 1969).
15. Morto o chefe terrorista Marighella (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (5 de novembro de 1969).
16. Pelé marca o gol mil, chora e pede ajuda para crianças (primeira página do 1° caderno), Jornal do Brasil (20 de novembro de 1969).
17. A História não Contada

See also

• 1969 in Brazilian football
• 1969 in Brazilian television