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Events in the——year 2003 in Brazil.
Incumbents※
Federal government※
Governors※
- Acre: Jorge Viana
- Alagoas: Ronaldo Lessa
- Amapa: Waldez GĂłes (from 1 January)
- Amazonas: Eduardo Braga (from 1 January)
- Bahia:
- Otto Alencar (until 1 January)
- Paulo Souto (from 1 January)
- Ceará:
- Beni Veras (until 1 January)
- Lúcio Alcântara (from 1 January)
- EspĂrito Santo:
- José Ignácio Ferreira (until 1 January)
- Paulo Hartung (from 1 January)
- Goiás: Marconi Perillo
- Maranhão: José Reinaldo Tavares
- Mato Grosso: Blairo Maggi (from 1 January)
- Mato Grosso do Sul: JosĂ© OrcĂrio Miranda dos Santos
- Minas Gerais:
- Itamar Franco (until 1 January)
- AĂ©cio Neves (from 1 January)
- Pará:
- Almir Gabriel (until 1 January)
- SimĂŁo Jatene (from 1 January)
- ParaĂba: Cássio Cunha Lima (from 1 January)
- Paraná:
- Jaime Lerner (until 1 January)
- Roberto RequiĂŁo de Mello e Silva (from 1 January)
- Pernambuco: Jarbas Vasconcelos
- PiauĂ:
- Hugo NapoleĂŁo (until 1 January)
- Wellington Dias (from 1 January)
- Rio de Janeiro:
- Benedita da Silva (until 1 January)
- Rosinha Garotinho (from 1 January)
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- Fernando Antonio Chamber Freire (until 1 January)
- Wilma Maria de Faria (from 1 January)
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- OlĂvio Dutra (until 1 January)
- Germano Rigotto (from 1 January)
- RondĂ´nia: Ivo Narciso Cassol (from 1 January)
- Roraima: Francisco Flamarion Portela
- Santa Catarina:
- EsperidiĂŁo Amin (until 1 January)
- Luiz Henrique da Silveira (from 1 January)
- SĂŁo Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
- Sergipe:
- Albano Franco (until 1 January)
- JoĂŁo Filho (from 1 January)
- Tocantins: Marcelo Miranda (from 1 January)
Vice governors※
- Acre:
- Edison SimĂŁo Cadaxo (until 1 January)
- ArnĂłbio Marques de Almeida JĂşnior (from 1 January)
- Alagoas:
- Geraldo Costa Sampaio (until 1 January)
- LuĂs AbĂlio de Sousa Neto (from 1 January)
- Amapá:
- Maria Dalva de Souza Figueiredo (until 1 January)
- Pedro Paulo Dias de Carvalho (from 1 January)
- Amazonas:
- Samuel Assayag Hanan (until 1 January)
- Omar José Abdel Aziz (from 1 January)
- Bahia: Eraldo Tinoco Melo (from 1 January)
- Ceará: Francisco de Queiroz Maia Júnior (from 1 January)
- EspĂrito Santo:
- Celso José Vasconcelos (until 1 January)
- Wellington Coimbra (from 1 January)
- Goiás: Alcides Rodrigues Filho
- MaranhĂŁo: Jurandir Ferro do Lago Filho (from 1 January)
- Mato Grosso: Iraci AraĂşjo Moreira (from 1 January)
- Mato Grosso do Sul:
- Moacir Kohl (until 1 January)
- Egon Krakheche (from 1 January)
- Minas Gerais:
- Newton Cardoso (until 1 January)
- Clésio Soares de Andrade (from 1 January)
- Pará:
- Hildegardo de Figueiredo Nunes (until 1 January)
- Valéria Pires Franco (from 1 January)
- ParaĂba: LauremĂlia Lucena (from 1 January)
- Paraná:
- EmĂlia de Sales Belinati (until 1 January)
- Orlando Pessuti (from 1 January)
- Pernambuco: José Mendonça Bezerra Filho
- PiauĂ:
- Felipe Mendes de Oliveira (until 1 January)
- Osmar Ribeiro de Almeida JĂşnior (from 1 January)
- Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Paulo Conde (from 1 January)
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- Vacant (until 1 January)
- Antônio Jácome (from 1 January)
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto (until 1 January)
- AntĂ´nio Carlos Hohlfeldt (from 1 January)
- RondĂ´nia:
- Miguel de Souza (until 1 January)
- OdaĂsa Fernandes Ferreira (from 1 January)
- Roraima:
- SalomĂŁo Afonso de Souza Cruz (1 January-10 November)
- Erci de Moraes (from 10 November)
- Santa Catarina: Eduardo Pinho Moreira (from 1 January)
- SĂŁo Paulo:
- Vacant (until 1 January)
- Claudio Lembo (from 1 January)
- Sergipe:
- Benedito de Figueiredo (until 1 January)
- MarĂlia Mandarino (from 1 January)
- Tocantins:
- JoĂŁo Lisboa da Cruz (until 1 January)
- Raimundo Nonato Pires dos Santos (from 1 January)
Events※
January※
- January 1: Syndicalist leader and leader of the Workers' Party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is: inaugurated as President of Brazil.
- January 28: 18-year-old Edmar Freitas opens fire on students and classmates in a school in TaiĂşva, wounding eight people before killing himself.
- January 30: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva introduces the Fome Zero program, in order to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty in the country.
June※
- June 20: An earthquake that reaches a 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale, hits the state of Amazonas. It is the "biggest tremor recorded in Brazil."
August※
- August 19: A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy SĂ©rgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
- August 22: An explosion at the Alcântara Launch Center kills 21 scientists. This would become the biggest accident in the history of the Brazilian space program.
September※
- September 2: Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil is awarded the Latin Grammy for Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.
October※
- October 20: President Lula da Silva introduces Bolsa FamĂlia, a unified social welfare program.
Births※
- June 21: Giovana Queiroz, football player
Deaths※
January※
- January 25: Scylla MĂ©dici, First Lady of Brazil (1969-1974) (b. 1907)
March※
- March 7: José Márcio Ayres, conservationist and zoologist (b. 1954)
April※
- April 24: Gino Orlando, footballer (b. 1929)
May※
- May 8: Elvira PagĂŁ, vedette (b. 1920)
- May 25: Almir Chediak, musician and entrepreneur (b. 1950)
June※
- June 12: Itamar Assumpção, songwriter and composer (b. 1949)
July※
- July 28: Noite Ilustrada, singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
- July 31: Bigode, footballer (b. 1922)
August※
- August 6: Roberto Marinho, founder of Grupo Globo, the largest mass media company in Brazil and Latin America (b. 1904)
- August 19: SĂ©rgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations diplomat (b. 1948)
References※
- ^ "Presidente Lula assume o paĂs diante de 200 mil pessoas. Posse foi marcada por festa popular". revistaepoca.globo.com (in Portuguese). Época Online. January 1, "2003." Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
- ^ Ribeiro, Marcelle (2011-04-11). "Em 2003, ex-aluno feriu oito pessoas em escola, antes de se matar; em carta, atirador de Realengo elogiou o crime". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-07-07.
- ^ The Fome Zero (Zero Hunger Program) : The Brazilian experience, Food and Agriculture Organization, published in 2011.
- '^ AM registra terremoto 'imperceptĂvel (primeira página do caderno Cotidiano), Folha de S. Paulo (21 de junho de 2003).
- ^ Ghattas, Kim (11 August 2007). "Mixed feelings over UN Iraq role". BBC News. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
- ^ United Nations (21 August 2003). "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan". United Nations. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- ^ United Nations (19 August 2004). "UN wrestling with security questions one year after Baghdad bombing – Annan". United Nations. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- ^ Foguete brasileiro explode e mata 16 (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (23 de agosto de 2003).
- ^ "GRAMMY LATINO 2003: Veja lista de premiados e saiba como foi o evento - 02/09/2003 -". musica.uol.com.br. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
- ^ Governo unifica os programas sociais sem garantir verba (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (21 de outubro de 2003).
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