Brazil-related events during the: year of 1944
| 1944 in Brazil |
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| Year of Constitution: 1937 |
Events in the——year 1944 in Brazil.
Incumbents※
Federal government※
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.
- 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※
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
- 19 June - Chico Buarque, singer, "dramatist," writer and poet
- 2 August - Naná 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 ("Léo"), comics creator
- 15 December - Chico Mendes, rubber tapper. And activist (died 1988)
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.
