1967 in Brazil

Brazil-related events during the year of 1967

1967 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1967 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

President:
- Marshal Castelo Branco (until 14 March)
- Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva (from 15 March)
Vice-President:
- José Maria Alkmin (until 14 March)
- Pedro Aleixo (from 15 March)

Governors

Acre: Vacant
Alagoas: Antônio Simeão de Lamenha Filho
Amazonas: Danilo Duarte de Matos Areosa
Bahia: Lomanto Junior then Luís Viana Filho
Ceará: Plácido Castelo
Espírito Santo:
- Rubens Rangel (until 31 January)
- Cristiano Dias Lopes Filho (from 31 January)
Goiás: Otávio Lage
Guanabara: Francisco Negrão de Lima
Maranhão: Jose Sarney
Mato Grosso: Pedro Pedrossian
Minas Gerais: Israel Pinheiro da Silva
Pará: Alacid Nunes
Paraíba: João Agripino Maia
Paraná: Pablo Cruz Pimentel
Pernambuco:
- Paulo Pessoa Guerra (until 31 January)
- Nilo Coelho (from 31 January)
Piauí: Helvídio Nunes
Rio de Janeiro: Geremias de Mattos Fontes
Rio Grande do Norte: Walfredo Gurgel Dantas
Rio Grande do Sul: Walter Peracchi Barcelos
Santa Catarina: Ivo Silveira
São Paulo: Roberto Costa de Abreu Sodré
Sergipe: Lourival Baptista

Vice governors

Alagoas: Manoel Sampaio Luz
Amazonas: Rui Arajuo (from 31 January)
Bahia:
- Orlando Moscoso (until 15 March)
- Jutahy Magalhães (from 15 March)
Ceará: Humberto Ellery
Espírito Santo: Isaac Lopes Rubim
Goiás: Osires Teixeira
Maranhão: Antonio Jorge Dino
Mato Grosso: Lenine de Campos Póvoas
Minas Gerais: Pio Soares Canedo
Pará: João Renato Franco
Paraíba: Antônio Juarez Farias
Paraná: Plínio Franco Ferreira da Costa
Pernambuco: Salviano Machado Filho
Piauí: João Clímaco d'Almeida
Rio de Janeiro: Heli Ribeiro Gomes
Rio Grande do Norte: Clóvis Motta
Santa Catarina: Jorge Bornhausen (from 9 March)
São Paulo: Hilário Torloni
Sergipe: Vacant

Events

January

18 January: The National Congress of Brazil rejects an amendment that would restore direct elections for President and Vice President of the Republic.^[1]
24 January: President Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco promulgates the Sixth Brazilian Constitution, which replaces the Fifth Constitution.^[2]
26 January: President-elect Artur da Costa e Silva visits U.S. president Lyndon Johnson at the White House.^[3]

February

9 February: President Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco signs the Press Law, where news, radio, and television stations are heavily regulated.^[4]^[5]
13 February: The Cruzeiro Novo, equivalent to one thousand old Cruzeiros, begins to circulate.^[6]

March

1 March: Police arrest Franz Stangl, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór extermination camps.^[7]^[8]
15 March: Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva is sworn in as the 27th President of Brazil.^[9]
18 March: Floods and landslides hit Caraguatatuba, São Paulo.^[10]

July

18 July: Former President of Brazil, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, dies in a plane crash in Fortaleza, Ceará.^[11]

September

6-13 September: King Olav V of Norway visits Brazil.^[12]^[13]
September-October: A large fire hits the Rio Doce State Park in Minas Gerais. Around 9,000 hectares (approximately one third of the reserve) were consumed by fire and 12 people died. This would be the second largest forest fire in Brazil in terms of number of fatalities; second only to the fire in Paraná in 1963, which left 110 dead.^[14]^[15]^[16]

December

5 December: The National Indigenous People Foundation (FUNAI) is created.^[17]^[18]

Births

January

8 January: Guilherme Fontes, actor

March

6 March: Sérgio Pereira Couto, Portuguese-Brazilian writer

July

1 July: Marisa Monte, singer

August

1 August: José Padilha, film director, producer and screenwriter

September

September 28: Roberto Santucci, filmmaker

November

5 November: Marcelo D2, rapper

13 November:
- Vitor Negrete, mountaineer (died 2006)
- Ricardo Nunes, politician

December

14 December: Palhinha, footballer

Deaths

February

26 February: Octacílio, footballer (born 1909)^[19]

July

18 July: Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, first president during the Brazilian military dictatorship (born 1897)^[20]
19 July: Luz del Fuego, ballerina, naturist and feminist (born 1917 as Dora Vivacqua)^[21]

November

19 November: João Guimarães Rosa, novelist (born 1908)

References

^ Rejeitadas diretas e revisão (página 3 do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (19 de janeiro de 1967).
^ Congresso promulga nova Carta (página 3 do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (25 de janeiro de 1967).
^ Encontro de Johnson e Costa na Casa Branca (página 3 do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (27 de janeiro de 1967).
^ Sancionada a Lei de Imprensa (página 3 do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (10 de fevereiro de 1967).
^ Lei de Imprensa só teve 2 vetos (primeira página do 1° caderno), Jornal do Brasil (10 de fevereiro de 1967).
^ Cruzeiro novo em circulação hoje (página 6 do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (13 de fevereiro de 1967).
^ Jornal Opção (04/02/2017)
^ "Sobibor, SS Commandant Franz Stangl". auschwitz.dk. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
^ O velho governo, dos AI à Segurança (página 8 do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (16 de março de 1967).
^ Agora, mortos e lama (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (21 de março de 1967).
^ Castelo Branco morre tragicamente (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (19 de julho de 1967).
^ O rei Olav V, da Noruega, inicia a visita ao Brasil (página 10 do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (7 de setembro de 1967).
^ O rei foi mas volta em visita particular (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (14 de setembro de 1967).
^ Diego Antonelli (9 August 2013). "Quando o Paraná virou um inferno". Gazeta do Povo. Archived from the original on June 8, 2023. Retrieved August 13, 2023.
^ "As "reservas naturais" do Brasil". Jornal do Comércio (in Portuguese) (117 ed.). February 18, 1956. p. 4.
^ "Eurico Santos fala de devastação e reflorestamento". Correio da Manhã (in Portuguese) (20038 ed.). July 24, 1958. p. 12.
^ "Quem Somos". funai.gov.br. Archived from the original on 16 November 2016. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
^ "Lei nº 5.371: Instituição da Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas". Staff of Brazil. December 5, 1967. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
^ "CBF profile". Archived from the original on 2014-03-22. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
^ Castelo Branco morre tragicamente (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (19 de julho de 1967).
^ "Luz del Fuego". O Estado de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). Grupo Estado. Retrieved 22 June 2014.

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