1951 in Brazil

1951 in Brazil
Years 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
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Second Brazilian Republic
Year of Constitution: 1946

Events in the year 1951 in Brazil.

Incumbents[]

Federal government[]

• President: Marshal Eurico Gaspar Dutra (till 31 January); Getúlio Vargas (from 31 January)
• Vice President: Nereu Ramos (till 31 January); Café Filho (from 31 January)

Governors[]

• Alagoas: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Amazonas: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Bahia: Otávio Mangabeira then Régis Pacheco
• Ceará: (till 31 January); Raul Barbosa (from 31 January)
• Espírito Santo: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Goiás: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso: then Fernando Corrêa da Costa
• Minas Gerais: Milton Soares Campos (till 31 January); Juscelino Kubitschek (from 31 January)
• Pará:
  • till 25 January:
  • 25 January-27 January:
  • 27 January-9 February:
  • 9 February-20 February:
  • starting 20 February:
• Paraíba: (till 31 January); José Américo de Almeida (from 31 January)
• Paraná: then Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto
• Pernambuco: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Piauí: (till 31 January); Pedro Freitas (from 31 January)
• Rio de Janeiro: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Rio Grande do Norte:
  • until 31 January:
  • 31 January-16 July:
  • from 16 July:
• Rio Grande do Sul: (till 31 January); Ernesto Dornelles (from 31 January)
• Santa Catarina: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• São Paulo: Ademar de Barros (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Sergipe:
  • till 31 January:
  • 31 January-17 February:
  • 17 February-12 March
  • from 12 March:

Vice governors[]

• Alagoas: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Ceará:
• Espírito Santo: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Goiás: (from 31 January)
• Maranhão: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Mato Grosso: (from 31 January)
• Minas Gerais: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Paraíba: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Piauí: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Rio de Janeiro: (from 31 January)
• Rio Grande do Norte:
  • till 31 January: Tomaz Salustino
  • 31 January-16 July: Sylvio Pedroza
  • from 16 July: vacant thereafter
• São Paulo: (till 31 January); (from 31 January)
• Sergipe: (from 31 January)

Events[]

• March - Clarice Lispector returns from London with her husband, Maury Gurgel Valente, following a miscarriage.^[1]
• 1 June - Última Hora, a tabloid newspaper, is founded by Samuel Wainer and personally endorsed by President Vargas.^[2]
• October - João Carlos Muniz of Brazil is President of the United Nations Security Council.
• November - Elizabeth Bishop, on a traveling fellowship from Bryn Mawr College, arrives in Santos with the aim of circumnavigating South America by boat.
• date unknown
  • The Brazilian Medical Association is founded.^[3]
  • The Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing is founded in São Paulo.^[4]

Arts and culture[]

Books[]

• Ștefan Baciu - Analiza cuvântului dor

Films[]

• Agüenta Firme, Isidoro, directed by Luiz de Barros.
• Aí Vem o Barão, directed by Watson Macedo, starring Oscarito, José Lewgoy and Eliana.
• Amazon Symphony, directed by Anelio Latini, starring Almirante.
• Quando a Noite Acaba, starring Tônia Carrero.
• O Saci, directed by Rodolfo Nanni, starring Paulo Matozinho.^[5]

Births[]

• 29 April - Vinicius Cantuária, jazz musician
• 12 July - Carlos Minc, geographer, environmentalist and politician^[6]
• 14 August - Rita Segato (in Argentina), anthropologist, feminist and academic^[7]
• 20 October - José Gomes Temporão, doctor and politician^[8]

Deaths[]

• 2 August - Joseph Franz Seraph Lutzenberger, German-born architect and artist (born 1882)
• 13 November - Walter de Souza Goulart, footballer (born 1912)

References[]

See also[]

• 1951 in Brazilian football
• List of Brazilian films of 1951

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