1953 in Brazil

Events in the year 1953 in Brazil .

Incumbents

Federal government

• President : Getúlio Vargas
• Vice President : Café Filho

Governors

• Alagoas : Arnon de Mello
• Amazonas : Álvaro Botelho Maia
• Bahia : Régis Pacheco
• Ceará : Raul Barbosa
• Espírito Santo : Francisco Alves Ataíde
• Goiás : Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
• Mato Grosso : Fernando Corrêa da Costa
• Minas Gerais : Juscelino Kubitschek
• Pará : Zacarias de Assumpção
• Paraíba : José Américo de Almeida
• Paraná : Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto
• Pernambuco : Etelvino Lins de Albuquerque
• Piauí : Pedro Freitas
• Rio de Janeiro : Amaral Peixoto
• Rio Grande do Norte : Silvio Piza Pedrosa
• Rio Grande do Sul : Ildo Meneghetti
• Santa Catarina : Irineu Bornhausen
• São Paulo : Lucas Nogueira Garcez
• Sergipe : Arnaldo Rollemberg Garcez

Vice governors

• Alagoas : Antônio Guedes de Miranda
• Ceará : Stênio Gomes da Silva
• Espírito Santo : Francisco Alves Ataíde
• Goiás : Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte
• Maranhão : Renato Bayma Archer da Silva
• Mato Grosso : João Leite de Barros
• Minas Gerais : Clóvis Salgado da Gama
• Paraíba : João Fernandes de Lima
• Piauí : Tertuliano Milton Brandão
• Rio de Janeiro : Tarcísio Miranda
• Rio Grande do Norte : Vacant
• São Paulo : Erlindo Salzano
• Sergipe : Edelzio Vieira de Melo

Events

• Date Unknown: JBS Group, a worldwide meat processing brand, was founded in Goiás. ^[1]

January

• January 20 : Lima Barreto's film O Cangaceiro is released in cinemas. ^[2]

March

• March 23 : The Brazilian branch of the German automaker Volkswagen is established in São Bernardo do Campo. ^[3]

April

• April 1 : The Brazilian football team is defeated 3-2 by Paraguay at the Estadio Nacional, Lima, to finish second in the 1953 South American Championship. ^[4]

June

• June 30 : The naval destroyer escort USS Pennewill (DE-175) is transferred from the United States to Brazilian ownership, taking on the new name Bertioga (BE–1). ^[5]

July

• July 25 : The Ministry of Health is created. ^{[6] [7]}

September

• September 27 : RecordTV is launched in São Paulo. ^[8]

October

• October 3 : President Getúlio Vargas signs the law that creates the state-owned multinational corporation Petrobras. ^{[9] [10]}

Births

March

• 3 March: Zico, footballer and coach

April

• 22 April: Lucinha Turnbull, singer, composer and guitarist

May

• 4 May: Lulu Santos, singer and guitarist
• 23 May: Armandinho, composer and singer

Deaths

March

• 20 March: Graciliano Ramos, writer (born 1892)

November

• 15 November: Jorge de Lima, writer (born 1893)
• 2 December – Miguel Osório de Almeida, physician and scientist (born 1890) ^[11]

References

1. Keren Blankfeld (2011-05-09). "JBS: The Story Behind the World's Biggest Meat Producer". Forbes.
2. "Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage" (PDF). UNESCO. September 1995. p. 15. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
3. "Volkswagen Newsroom". www.vwnews.com.br. Retrieved 2023-07-06.
4. Oliver, Guy (1992). The Guinness Record of World Soccer. Guinness publishing. p. 561. ISBN   0-85112-954-4.
5. This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.
6. "Notícias de hoje do Brasil e do Mundo". Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-06.
7. "História do Ministério: Saúde no Brasil - do Sanitarismo à Municipalização". Ministério da Saúde.
8. "A história da RecordTV". Museu da TV, Rádio & Cinema. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
9. "Falará hoje à nação o presidente Vargas" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha da Manhã (3 de outubro de 1953).
10. ""Decidi-me a arrostar as incertezas e as agruras da batalha democratica"" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha da Manhã (4 de outubro de 1953).
11. "Perfil do Acadêmico". ABL (in Portuguese). 4 November 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

See also

• 1953 in Brazilian football