Events in the year 1953 in
Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
*
President:
Getúlio Vargas
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Vice President:
Café Filho
Governors
*
Alagoas:
Arnon de Mello
*
Amazonas:
Álvaro Botelho Maia Álvaro (, , ) is a Spanish, Galician and Portuguese male given name and surname (see Spanish naming customs) of Visigothic origin. Some claim it may be related to the Old Norse name Alfarr, formed of the elements ''alf'' "elf" and ''arr'' "warrior ...
*
Bahia:
Régis Pacheco
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Ceará
Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...
:
Raul Barbosa
Raul António dos Santos Barbosa (born 18 May 1972) is an Angolan footballer. He played in three matches for the Angola national football team in 1998. He was also named in Angola's squad for the 1998 African Cup of Nations
The 1998 African ...
*
Espírito Santo:
Francisco Alves Ataíde
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Goiás:
Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning " ...
*
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP.
Neighboring ...
:
Fernando Corrêa da Costa
*
Minas Gerais:
Juscelino Kubitschek
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Pará:
Zacarias de Assumpção
Zechariah most often refers to:
* Zechariah (Hebrew prophet), author of the Book of Zechariah
* Zechariah (New Testament figure), father of John the Baptist
Zechariah or its many variant forms and spellings may also refer to:
People
* Zechari ...
*
Paraíba
Paraíba ( Tupi: ''pa'ra a'íba''; ) is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Paraíba ...
:
José Américo de Almeida
*
Paraná:
Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto
*
Pernambuco:
Etelvino Lins de Albuquerque
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Piauí
Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP.
Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66&n ...
:
Pedro Freitas
*
Rio de Janeiro:
Amaral Peixoto
*
Rio Grande do Norte:
Silvio Piza Pedrosa
*
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...
:
Ildo Meneghetti
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Santa Catarina:
Irineu Bornhausen
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São Paulo:
Lucas Nogueira Garcez
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Sergipe:
Arnaldo Rollemberg Garcez
Vice governors
*
Alagoas:
Antônio Guedes de Miranda
*
Ceará
Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...
:
Stênio Gomes da Silva
*
Espírito Santo:
Francisco Alves Ataíde
*
Goiás:
Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte
*
Maranhão:
Renato Bayma Archer da Silva
*
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP.
Neighboring ...
:
João Leite de Barros
*
Minas Gerais:
Clóvis Salgado da Gama
*
Paraíba
Paraíba ( Tupi: ''pa'ra a'íba''; ) is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Paraíba ...
:
João Fernandes de Lima
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Piauí
Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP.
Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66&n ...
:
Tertuliano Milton Brandão
*
Rio de Janeiro:
Tarcísio Miranda
*
Rio Grande do Norte: ''Vacant''
*
São Paulo:
Erlindo Salzano
*
Sergipe:
Edelzio Vieira de Melo
Events
*Date Unknown:
JBS Group, a worldwide
meat processing brand, was founded in
Goiás.
January
*
January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
* 1156 &ndas ...
:
Lima Barreto
Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (13 May 1881 – 1 November 1922) was a Brazilian novelist and journalist. A major figure in Brazilian Pre-Modernism, he is famous for the novel '' Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma'', a bitter satire of the first ...
's film ''
O Cangaceiro'' is released in cinemas.
March
*
March 23: The Brazilian branch of the
German automaker Volkswagen is established in
São Bernardo do Campo
São Bernardo do Campo () is a Brazilian Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the state of São Paulo.
It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 844,483 (2020 est.) in an area of .
History
The city was founded b ...
.
April
*
April 1:
The Brazilian football team is defeated 3-2 by Paraguay at the
Estadio Nacional,
Lima, to finish second in the
1953 South American Championship
The South American Championship 1953 was a football tournament held in Peru and won by Paraguay with Brazil second. Argentina, and Colombia withdrew from the tournament. Francisco Molina from Chile became top scorer of the tournament with 7 g ...
.
June
*
June 30: The naval destroyer escort ''
USS Pennewill (DE-175)'' is transferred from the United States to Brazilian ownership, taking on the new name ''Bertioga (BE–1)''.
July
*
July 25
Events Pre-1600
* 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...
: The
Ministry of Health Ministry of Health may refer to:
Note: Italics indicate now-defunct ministries.
* Ministry of Health (Argentina)
* Ministry of Health (Armenia)
* Australia:
** Ministry of Health (New South Wales)
* Ministry of Health (The Bahamas)
* Ministry of ...
is created.
September
*
September 27:
RecordTV is launched in
São Paulo.
October
*
October 3:
President Getúlio Vargas signs the law that creates the
state-owned
State ownership, also called government ownership and public ownership, is the ownership of an industry, asset, or enterprise by the state or a public body representing a community, as opposed to an individual or private party. Public ownersh ...
multinational corporation Petrobras
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., better known by the portmanteau Petrobras (), is a state owned enterprise, state-owned Brazilian multinational corporation in the petroleum industry headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The company's name transla ...
.
Births
March
*
3 March
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Emperor Shōmu, Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japa ...
:
Zico, footballer and coach
April
*
22 April
Events Pre-1600
*1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
* 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern h ...
:
Lucinha Turnbull
Lúcia Maria Turnbull, known as Lucinha Turnbull (born 22 April 1953), is a Brazilian singer, composer and guitarist, considered the first woman electric guitarist in Brazil.
Biography
Born in São Paulo, Turnbull is daughter of a Scottish fat ...
, singer, composer and guitarist
May
*
4 May
Events Pre-1600
*1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.
*1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are ...
:
Lulu Santos
Lulu Santos, stage name of Luiz Maurício Pragana dos Santos (born May 4, 1953), is a Brazilian singer and guitarist.
Career
Lulu was born in Rio de Janeiro. Beginning in the progressive rock band Vímana, he left the band and embarked on a ...
, singer and guitarist
*
23 May
Events Pre-1600
*1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.
*1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
*1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII ...
:
Armandinho, composer and singer
Deaths
March
*
20 March
Events Pre-1600
* 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
* 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
*1600 – The Linkö ...
:
Graciliano Ramos, writer (born
1892
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States.
* February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado.
* February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for ...
)
November
*
15 November
Events Pre-1600
* 655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
*1315 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morg ...
:
Jorge de Lima
Jorge Mateus de Lima (April 23, 1893 – November 15, 1953) was a Brazilian politician, physician, poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, translator and painter. His poetry was initially composed in Alexandrine form, but he later became a moder ...
, writer (born
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
)
*
2 December
Events Pre-1600
*1244 – Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon for the First Council of Lyon.
*1409 – The University of Leipzig opens. 1601–1900
*1697 – St Paul's Cathedral, rebuilt to the design of Sir Christopher Wren following ...
–
Miguel Osório de Almeida
Miguel Osório de Almeida (September 1, 1890 – December 2, 1952, both in Rio de Janeiro) was a noted Brazilian physician and scientist, brother of another scientist, Álvaro Osório de Almeida, both considered the ''fathers'' of modern physiolo ...
, physician and scientist (born
1890
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa.
** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River.
* January 2
** The steamship ...
)
References
See also
*
1953 in Brazilian football
The following article presents a summary of the 1953 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 52nd season of competitive football in the country.
Torneio Rio-São Paulo
Final Standings
Corinthians declared as the Torneio Rio-São P ...
1950s in Brazil
Years of the 20th century in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil
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