Events in the year 1954 in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

Incumbents

Federal government

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: **

Getúlio Vargas Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (; 19 April 1882 – 24 August 1954) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Due to his long and controversial tenure as Brazi ...

(until August 24) **

Café Filho João Fernandes Campos Café Filho (; 3 February 1899 – 20 February 1970) was a Brazilian politician who served as the 18th president of Brazil, taking office upon the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas. He was the first Protestant to occu ...

(from August 24) *

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: **Café Filho (until August 24) **''Vacant'' (from August 24)

Governors

Alagoas Alagoas (, ) is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco (N and NW); Sergipe (S); Bahia (SW); and the Atlantic Ocean (E). Its capital is the city of Maceió. ...

: Arnon de Mello * Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia *

Bahia Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-largest b ...

: Régis Pacheco * Ceará: ** Raul Barbosa (from 1 July) ** Stênio Gomes da Silva (until 31 July) *

Espírito Santo Espírito Santo (, , ; ) is a state in southeastern Brazil. Its capital is Vitória, and its largest city is Serra. With an extensive coastline, the state hosts some of the country's main ports, and its beaches are significant tourist attra ...

: Francisco Alves Ataíde *

Goiás Goiás () is a Brazilian state located in the Center-West region. Goiás borders the Federal District and the states of (from north clockwise) Tocantins, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. The state capital is Goi ...

: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira *

Maranhão Maranhão () is a state in Brazil. Located in the country's Northeast Region, it has a population of about 7 million and an area of . Clockwise from north, it borders on the Atlantic Ocean for 2,243 km and the states of Piauí, Tocantins and ...

: Eugênio Barros * Mato Grosso:

Fernando Corrêa da Costa Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa, the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka. It is equivalent to the G ...

Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literally ...

Juscelino Kubitschek Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (; 12 September 1902 – 22 August 1976), also known by his initials JK, was a prominent Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. His term was marked by economic prosp ...

Pará Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana ...

: Zacarias de Assumpção * Paraíba:

José Américo de Almeida José Américo de Almeida (January 10, 1887, in Areia – March 10, 1980, in João Pessoa) was a Brazilian writer, a politician, a lawyer and a teacher. Bibliography * Reflexões de um Cabra, 1922 * A Paraíba e seus Problemas, 1923 * A B ...

* Paraná: Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto *

Pernambuco Pernambuco () is a States of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it List of Brazilian states by population, sev ...

: Etelvino Lins de Albuquerque * Piauí: Pedro Freitas *

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...

: Amaral Peixoto *

Rio Grande do Norte Rio Grande do Norte (, , ) is one of the states of Brazil. It is located in the northeastern region of the country, forming the northeasternmost tip of the South American continent. The name literally translates as "Great Northern River", re ...

: Silvio Piza Pedrosa * Rio Grande do Sul: Ildo Meneghetti * Santa Catarina: Irineu Bornhausen *

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the Ga ...

: Lucas Nogueira Garcez *

Sergipe Sergipe (), officially State of Sergipe, is a state of Brazil. Located in the Northeast Region along the Atlantic coast of the country, Sergipe is the smallest state in Brazil by geographical area at , larger only than the Federal District. Serg ...

: Arnaldo Rollemberg Garcez

Vice governors

: Antônio Guedes de Miranda * Ceará: Stênio Gomes da Silva (until 30 June) *

: Francisco Alves Ataíde *

: Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte (until 1 July) *

: Renato Bayma Archer da Silva * Mato Grosso: João Leite de Barros *

: Clóvis Salgado da Gama * Paraíba: João Fernandes de Lima * Piauí: ** Tertuliano Milton Brandão (until 25 March) ** Francisco Ferreira de Castro (from 25 March) *

: ** Tarcísio Miranda (until 25 March) ** Roberto Silveira (from 25 March) *

: ''Vacant'' *

: ** Erlindo Salzano (until 31 January) ** Porfírio da Paz (from 31 January) *

: Edelzio Vieira de Melo

Events

August

August 5 Events Pre-1600 *AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty. * 70 – Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are ...

: An assassination is attempted against journalist and politician Carlos Lacerda outside his home at 180 Rua Tonelero, where he and one of his bodyguards are injured.

Air Force An air force – in the broadest sense – is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an ...

major Rubens Florentino (serving as Lacerda's bodyguard) is killed. That same day, further investigations uncover the involvement of a member of President

' security are involved in the assassination attempt. *

August 8 Events Pre-1600 * 685 BC – Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the previous Duke of Qi, Gongsun Wuzhi, Duke Zhuang of Lu sends an army into the Duchy of Qi to install the exiled Qi prince Gongzi Jiu as the ...

: Gregório Fortunato, head of Vargas' personal security, confesses to masterminding the assassination attempt. The

take charge of the investigations and Fortunato is apprehended.. *

August 22 Events Pre-1600 * 392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. * 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland. *1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland a ...

: 19 Brazilian Army generals sign a manifesto demanding Vargas' resignation. *

August 23 Events Pre-1600 *30 BC – After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, the eldest son of Mark Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Julius Cae ...

Vargas meets with his ministers to analyze the political crisis that arose after the attack. It is decided that Vargas will go on leave until the end of the investigations. *

August 24 Events Pre-1600 * 367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father. * 394 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written. ...

: The

military A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...

do not accept Vargas' agreement and demand for his resignation. At the Catete Palace,

President of Brazil The president of Brazil ( pt, Presidente do Brasil), officially the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil ( pt, Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil) or simply the ''President of the Republic'', is the head of state and head o ...

commits suicide by shooting himself in the heart.

becomes the 18th President of Brazil."Final dramático da crise politica"
(página 6 do 1° caderno), '' Folha da Noite'' (24 de agosto de 1954).

October

October 3 Events Pre-1600 * 2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. * 52 BC – Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Juliu ...

: Parliamentary elections are held in Brazil.

Births

February

*February 19:

Sócrates Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira (19 February 1954 – 4 December 2011), simply known as Sócrates, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. His medical degree and his political awareness, combined with sty ...

, footballer (d. 2011)

May

*May 20: João Batista Nunes, footballer *May 28: João Carlos de Oliveira, athlete

June

*June 2: ** Diana, singer ** Mattos Nascimento, trombonist *June 28: Daniel Dantas, actor

December

*December 24: Luís Carlos Melo Lopes, footballer *December 25:

João Justino Amaral dos Santos João Justino Amaral dos Santos (born 25 December 1954 in Campinas, São Paulo State), best known as ''Amaral'' or ''Amaral II'', is a Brazilian former footballer. He played for Guarani (1971–1978), Corinthians (1978–1981), Santos (1981� ...

, footballer

Deaths

*August 24:

, 14th and 17th President of Brazil