1944 in Brazil

Events in the year 1944 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Getúlio Vargas

Governors

Alagoas: Ismar de Góis Monteiro
Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
Bahia: Renato Onofre Pinto Aleixo
Ceará: Francisco de Meneses Pimentel
Espírito Santo: João Punaro Bley
Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
Maranhão:
Mato Grosso: Júlio Strübing Müller
Minas Gerais: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro
Pará: Magalhães Barata
Paraíba: Rui Carneiro
Paraná: Manuel Ribas
Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
Piauí: Leônidas Melo
Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão/Antonio Fernandes Dantas
Rio Grande do Sul: Ernesto Dornelles
Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
São Paulo: Fernando de Sousa Costa
Sergipe: Augusto Maynard Gomes

Vice governors

Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
São Paulo: 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.^[1]
31 October - Brazilian pilots begin operations, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons.
date unknown
- The Banco Nacional is founded in São Paulo.
- Getúlio 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

Jorge Amado - São Jorge dos Ilhéus
Oswald de Andrade - Meu Testamento

Films

Corações Sem Piloto
Berlim na Batucada
É Proibido Sonhar
O Brasileiro João de Souza

Music

Camargo Guarnieri - Symphony no 1

Births

8 February - Sebastião Salgado, photojournalist^[2]
19 June - Chico Buarque, singer, dramatist, writer and poet
2 August - Naná Vasconcelos, jazz musician (died 2016)^[3]
18 October - Nelson Freire, pianist (died 2021)
9 November - Torquato Neto, journalist, poet and songwriter (died 1972)
13 December - Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira ("Léo"), comics creator^[4]
15 December - Chico Mendes, rubber tapper and activist (died 1988)^[5]

Deaths

29 April - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal 1915–17 and 1925–26 (born 1851)

References

↑ Command Magazine, issue 51, page 34
↑ Hudson, Berkley (2009). Sterling, Christopher H. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Journalism. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE. pp. 1060–67. ISBN 978-0-7619-2957-4.
↑ John Fordham (21 March 2016). "Naná Vasconcelos obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
↑ "Leo". Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
↑ "Chico Mendes". Moral Heroes. 4 March 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2023.

See also

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Years in Brazil (1822–present)
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21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

1944 in South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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