1977 in Brazil

Events in the year 1977 in Brazil .

Incumbents

Federal government

• President : General Ernesto Geisel
• Vice President : General Adalberto Pereira dos Santos

Governors

• Acre : Vacant
• Alagoas : Divaldo Suruagy
• Amazonas : Henoch da Silva Reis
• Bahia : Roberto Santos
• Ceará : José Adauto Bezerra
• Espírito Santo : Élcio Álvares
• Goiás : Irapuan Costa Jr.
• Maranhão : Oswaldo da Costa Nunes Freire
• Mato Grosso : Jose Garcia Neto
• Mato Grosso do Sul : Vacant
• Minas Gerais : Aureliano Chaves
• Pará : Aloysio Chaves
• Paraíba : Ivan Bichara
• Paraná : Jaime Canet Júnior
• Pernambuco : Francisco Moura Cavalcanti
• Piauí : Dirceu Arcoverde
• Rio de Janeiro : Floriano P. Faria Lima
• Rio Grande do Norte : Tarcisio de Vasconcelos Maia
• Rio Grande do Sul : Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli
• Santa Catarina : Antônio Carlos Konder Reis
• São Paulo : Paulo Egídio Martins
• Sergipe : José Rollemberg

Vice governors

• Acre : Omar Sabino de Paula
• Alagoas : Vacant
• Amazonas : João Bosco Ramos de Lima
• Bahia : Edvaldo Brandão Correia
• Ceará : José Waldemar de Alcântara e Silva
• Espírito Santo : Carlos Alberto Lindenberg von Schilgen
• Goiás : José Luís Bittencourt
• Maranhão : José Duailibe Murad
• Mato Grosso : Cássio Leite de Barros
• Mato Grosso do Sul : Vacant
• Minas Gerais : Levindo Ozanam Coelho
• Pará : Clovis Silva de Morais Rego
• Paraíba : Dorgival Terceiro Neto
• Paraná : Octávio Cesário Pereira Júnior
• Pernambuco : Paulo Gustavo de Araújo Cunha
• Piauí : Djalma Martins Veloso
• Rio de Janeiro : Vacant
• Rio Grande do Norte : Geraldo Melo
• Rio Grande do Sul : José Augusto Amaral de Sousa
• Santa Catarina : Marcos Henrique Büechler
• São Paulo : Ferreira Filho
• Sergipe : Antônio Ribeiro Sotelo

Events

April

• April 1 : President Ernesto Geisel closes the National Congress of Brazil to control presidential succession as conflict erupts between him, the duristas, Congress, the Church, and the media. ^{[1] [2]}
• April 14 : President Geisel signs constitutional amendment n°8 and reopens the National Congress of Brazil. ^[3]

June

• June 23 : In a second ballot by 226 votes in favor and 159 against; the National Congress of Brazil approves a constitutional amendment by Senators Nelson Carneiro and Acioli Filho, that legalizes divorce. ^[4]

August

• August 3 : Writer Rachel de Queiroz becomes the first woman elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters. ^[5]
• August 17 : Jorge Amado's novel Tieta do Agreste is published, which becomes one of his best-selling works. ^[6]

October

• October 1 : Pelé, playing for the New York Cosmos, scores his last goal to defeat Santos FC 2-1, at Giants Stadium, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. This would be his last official game, thus saying goodbye to his professional football career. ^[7]
• October 11 : President Ernesto Geisel signs a law, creating the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. ^[8]

December

• December 26 : President Ernesto Geisel signs a law that legalizes and regulates divorce. ^[9]

Births

March

• 27 March: Vítor Meira race car driver

April

• 1 April: Vitor Belfort, MMA fighter

June

• 8 June: Falcão, footballer

July

• 20 July: Susana Werner, model and actress
• 30 July: Fabrício Werdum, Jiu-Jitsu practitioner

August

• 24 August: Denílson, footballer

September

• 14 September: Alex, footballer

October

• 31 October: Larissa Maciel, actress

November

• 6 November: Demian Maia, mixed martial artist
• 8 November: João Rodrigo Silva Santos soccer player (d. 2013)

December

• December 12: Evangelista Santos, mixed martial arts fighter

Deaths

January

• 22 January: Maysa Matarazzo, singer (b. 1936)

February

• 13 February: Carolina Maria de Jesus, memorialist (b. 1914)

March

• 18 March: Carlos Pace, racing driver,(b. 1944)

July

• 21 July: Zózimo, World Cup-winning footballer (b. 1932)

December

• 9 December: Clarice Lispector, writer (b. 1920)

See also

• 1977 in Brazilian football
• Brazilian military government

References

1. Breneman, Tracy Ann (September 1995), BRAZIL'S AUTHORITARIAN EXPERIENCE: 1964–1985; A STUDY OF A CONFLICT, University of Colorado, Boulder, archived from the original on March 4, 2016, retrieved October 26, 2015
2. "Não haverá cassações agora" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (2 de abril de 1977).
3. "Consumada a reforma política" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (15 de abril de 1977).
4. "Implantado o divórcio no País" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (24 de junho de 1977).
5. "Academia: Rachel de Queiroz ou a tradição masculina" (página 40 do caderno Ilustrada), Folha de S. Paulo (4 de agosto de 1977).
6. Jorge Amado with translation by Barbara Shelby Merello (1979). Tieta. Avon Books. p. 672.
7. "Um adeus de rei, com gol" (página 55 do 4° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (2 de outubro de 1977).
8. "Criado o Estado de MT do Sul" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (12 de outubro de 1977).
9. "Em vigor o divórcio" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (27 de dezembro de 1977).

See also

• 1977 in Brazilian football
• 1977 in Brazilian television