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1944 in Brazil

Events in the year 1944 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: GetÃÂºlio Vargas

Governors

: Ismar de GÃÂ³is Monteiro
Amazonas: ÃÂlvaro Botelho Maia
Bahia: Renato Onofre Pinto Aleixo
CearÃÂ¡: Francisco de Meneses Pimentel
EspÃÂrito Santo: JoÃÂ£o Punaro Bley
: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
MaranhÃÂ£o:
Mato Grosso: JÃÂºlio StrÃÂ¼bing MÃÂ¼ller
Minas Gerais: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro
: MagalhÃÂ£es Barata
: Rui Carneiro
ParanÃÂ¡: Manuel Ribas
: Agamenon MagalhÃÂ£es
: LeÃÂ´nidas Melo
Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes GurjÃÂ£o/Antonio Fernandes Dantas
Rio Grande do Sul: Ernesto Dornelles
: Nereu Ramos
SÃÂ£o Paulo: Fernando de Sousa Costa
: Augusto Maynard Gomes

Vice governors

: no vice governor
: no vice governor

Events

1 January - The former Royal Military Academy expends into the city of Resende.
2 July - Second World War: The first five thousand Brazilian Expeditionary Force soldiers, the 6th RCT, leave Brazil for Europe aboard the USNS General Mann.
September - Brazilian air-land forces go into action in Italy.
31 October - Brazilian pilots begin operations, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons.
date unknown
The Banco Nacional is founded in SÃÂ£o Paulo.
GetÃÂºlio Vargas allocated an area of 4 million square meters near Santa Maria for the purpose of building an aerodrome. Santa Maria Airport opens the following year.

Arts and culture

Books

Films

CoraÃÂ§ÃÂµes Sem Piloto
Berlim na Batucada
ÃÂ Proibido Sonhar
O Brasileiro JoÃÂ£o de Souza

Music

Camargo Guarnieri - Symphony no 1

Births

8 February - SebastiÃÂ£o Salgado, photojournalist (died 2025)
19 June - Chico Buarque, singer, dramatist, writer and poet
27 June - ZezÃÂ© Motta, actress and singer
2 August - NanÃÂ¡ Vasconcelos, jazz musician (died 2016)
18 October - Nelson Freire, pianist (died 2021)
9 November - Torquato Neto, journalist, poet and songwriter (died 1972)
13 December - Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira ("LÃÂ©o"), comics creator
15 December - Chico Mendes, rubber tapper and activist (died 1988)

Deaths

29 April - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal 1915Ã¢ÂÂ17 and 1925Ã¢ÂÂ26 (born 1851)

References

See also