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1937 In Portugal
Events in the year 1937 in Portugal. Incumbents *President: Óscar Carmona *Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar Events Arts and entertainment Sports *A.A. Avanca founded *G.D. Fabril founded *Mem Martins Sport Clube founded * UD Sousense founded Births *1 September – Francisco Pinto Balsemão, businessman, journalist and politician. *7 December - Ary dos Santos, poet, songwriter (died 1984) Deaths References {{Year in Europe, 1937 1930s in Portugal Portugal Years of the 20th century in Portugal Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ...
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Óscar Carmona
António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona (; 24 November 1869 – 18 April 1951) was a Portuguese Army officer and politician who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1926 to 1928 and as the 11th president of Portugal from 1926 until his death in 1951. He also served as the Minister of War, in late 1923 and in 1926, and as a Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1926. Political origin Carmona was a republican and a freemason and was a quick adherent to the proclamation of the Portuguese First Republic on 5 October 1910. He was, however, never a sympathizer of the democratic form of government, and – as he would later confess in an interview to António Ferro – he only voted for the first time at the 1933 constitutional referendum. During the First Republic, he briefly served as Minister of War in the cabinet of António Ginestal Machado in 1923. Unlike the popular marshal Gomes da Costa, Carmona had not seen action in World War I. Presidency Carmona was very active in the 2 ...
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List Of Prime Ministers Of Portugal
The prime minister of the Portuguese Republic ( pt, primeiro-ministro da República Portuguesa) is the head of the Government of Portugal. They coordinate the actions of all ministers, represent the Government as a whole, report their actions and is accountable to the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal), Assembly of the Republic, and keep the President of Portugal, president of the Republic informed. There is no limit to the number of mandates as prime minister. They are appointed by the president of the Republic, after the legislative elections and after an audience with every leader of a party represented at the Assembly. It is usual for the leader of the party which receives a Plurality (voting), plurality of votes in the elections to be named prime minister. The official residence of the prime minister is a mansion next to São Bento Palace, which, in confusion, is also often called "São Bento Palace", although many prime ministers did not live in the palace during their f ...
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António De Oliveira Salazar
António de Oliveira Salazar (, , ; 28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese dictator who served as President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the ("National Dictatorship"), he reframed the regime as the ("New State"), a corporatist dictatorship that ruled Portugal from 1933 until 1974. Salazar was a political economy professor at University of Coimbra. Salazar entered public life as finance minister with the support of President Óscar Carmona after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état. The military of 1926 saw themselves as the guardians of the nation in the wake of the instability and perceived failure of the First Republic, but they had no clue how to address the critical challenges of the hour. Within one year, armed with special powers, Salazar balanced the budget and stabilized Portugal's currency. Salazar produced the first of many budgetary surpluses. He promoted civilian administration in the authoritarian regime when the ...
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Mem Martins Sport Clube
Mem (also spelled Meem, Meme, or Mim) is the thirteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew mēm , Aramaic Mem , Syriac mīm ܡ, Arabic mīm and Phoenician mēm . Its sound value is . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek mu (Μ), Etruscan , Latin M, and Cyrillic М. Origins Mem is believed to derive from the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for water, N35 which had been simplified by the Phoenicians and named after their word for “water”, ''mem'' (), ultimately coming from Proto-Semitic *maʾ-/*may-. Hebrew Mem Hebrew spelling: Hebrew pronunciation Mem represents a bilabial nasal . Variations on written form/pronunciation In Hebrew, Mem, like Kaph, Nun, Pe, and Tzadi, has a final form, used at the end of words: its shape changes from to . Significance In gematria, Mem represents the number 40 in both the Standard and Mispar Gadol Methods of Gematria; However, (mem sofit) final mem's value is 40 in the Standard Method and 600 in th ...
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UD Sousense
União Desportiva Sousense ''(abbreviated as UD Sousense)'' is a Portuguese football club based in Foz de Sousa, Gondomar in the district of Porto. Background UD Sousense currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal which is the third tier of Portuguese football. The club was founded on 1 December 1937 and they play their home matches at the Estádio 1º de Dezembro in Foz de Sousa, Gondomar. The stadium is able to accommodate 10,000 spectators. Sousense played for the first 70 years of existence in the regional leagues of Porto. In the 2009–10 season, the club won the championship, thus gaining promotion to the fourth level for the first time. The club is affiliated to Associação de Futebol do Porto and has competed in the AF Porto Taça. The club has also entered the national cup competition known as Taça de Portugal on a few occasions. Current squad Season to season Honours *AF Porto Divisão de Honra: 2009/10 See also *Apito Dourado T ...
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Pinto Balsemao
Pinto is a Portuguese, Spanish, Jewish (Sephardic), and Italian surname. It is a high-frequency surname in all Portuguese-speaking countries and is also widely present in Spanish-speaking countries, Italy, India especially in Mangalore, Karnataka France and Israel. Historically, it has been common among political elites in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries, as numerous presidents, prime ministers, and heads of state have shared the surname. In many languages, Pinto means "colored" or "painted" as it derives from the Late Latin and Classical Latin , and in some cases, at least from the same word in the sense "lively or restless person". It is linguistically related to the name of Columbus' ship '' La Pinta'', meaning "The Painted One", "The Look", or "The Spotted One". Also related, though greatly diverging in meaning, is the unit of measurement pint, which comes from the Old French word and perhaps ultimately from Vulgar Latin meaning "painted", for marks ...
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Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Francisco José Pereira Pinto Balsemão (; born 1 September 1937) is a Portuguese businessman, former journalist and retired politician, who served as Prime Minister of Portugal, from 1981 to 1983. Background He is the son of Henrique Patrício de Balsemão ( Guarda, Guarda, 9 September 1897 – ?) and wife (married Lisbon, 21 May 1922) Maria Adelaide van Zeller de Castro Pereira (Sintra, 11 August 1897 – 02 March 1984). Career Being a licentiate in Law from the University of Lisbon, Pinto Balsemão's pre-political career was in newspaper publishing. After working as a journalist and then as an administrator of ''Diário Popular'' (the ''People's Daily'' in English) from 1963 to 1971, he founded the ''Expresso'' magazine in 1973 and continued to direct it until 1980. He is one of top managers and owners of Impresa media group. Pinto Balsemão was Member of parliament before the revolution (1969–1973), when, together with Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Joaquim Magalhães Mota, ...
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Ary Dos Santos
José Carlos Ary dos Santos, GCIH or just Ary dos Santos (Lisboa, December 7, 1936 – Lisboa, January 18, 1984) was one of the most relevant names of the Portuguese popular poetry of the 20th century. Born of a bourgeois family, Ary dos Santos soon developed several skills for poetry. At only 14, the family published some poems, against his will - (he thought the poems were not good enough). In 1954, at the age of 16, Ary saw some of his poems being selected for the Anthology of the Almeida Garrett prize. After that, Ary fell out with his father and left his family home, working on several jobs, like errand boy, bubblegum and machines seller, tutor, docker, clerk and finally publicist. His poetic work continued to develop and in 1963 he published his first book, ''A Liturgia do Sangue'' iturgy of Blood 1969 was the year that changed Ary's life, as he liked to say. He became a member of the Portuguese Communist Party and quickly developed his revolutionary vein. Ary dos San ...
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1984 In Portugal
Events in the year 1984 in Portugal. Incumbents *President: António Ramalho Eanes *Prime Minister: Mário Soares Events * 25 March - Pope John Paul II consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Fátima, Portugal. * 29 August - Tiago José Rodrigues Cardoso - Born in Guimarães. * 14 October - Azores regional election. * 14 October - Madeira regional election. * 27 December - Born Basilio Airosa in mafamude from the love of Ernesto Airosa and Manuela Arts and entertainment Portugal participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 with Maria Guinot and the song "Silêncio e tanta gente". Sports In association football, for the first-tier league seasons, see 1983–84 Primeira Divisão and 1984–85 Primeira Divisão. Births *20 April - Nelson Évora, athlete *23 May - Hugo Almeida, footballer *16 July - Miguel Pires, swimmer *14 September - Maria Areosa, professional triathleteSee http://www.federacao-triatlo.pt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39 ...
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1937 In Portugal
Events in the year 1937 in Portugal. Incumbents *President: Óscar Carmona *Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar Events Arts and entertainment Sports *A.A. Avanca founded *G.D. Fabril founded *Mem Martins Sport Clube founded * UD Sousense founded Births *1 September – Francisco Pinto Balsemão, businessman, journalist and politician. *7 December - Ary dos Santos, poet, songwriter (died 1984) Deaths References {{Year in Europe, 1937 1930s in Portugal Portugal Years of the 20th century in Portugal Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
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