1953 in Brazil

Events in the year 1953 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Getúlio Vargas
• Vice President: Café Filho

Governors

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

Vice governors

• : Antônio Guedes de Miranda
• : Stênio Gomes da Silva
• : Francisco Alves Ataíde
• : Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte
• : Renato Bayma Archer da Silva
• : João Leite de Barros
• : Clóvis Salgado da Gama
• : João Fernandes de Lima
• : Tertuliano Milton Brandão
• : Tarcísio Miranda
• : Vacant
• : Erlindo Salzano
• : Edelzio Vieira de Melo

Events

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

January

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

March

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

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.

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).

July

• July 25: The Ministry of Health is created.

September

• September 27: RecordTV is launched in São Paulo.

October

• October 3: President Getúlio Vargas signs the law that creates the state-owned multinational corporation Petrobras.

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)

References

See also

• 1953 in Brazilian football