Events in the year 1940 in Brazil.
Incumbents edit
Federal government edit
Governors edit
- Alagoas:
- Osman Laurel (until 31 October)
- José Maria Correia das Neves (from 31 October)
- Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
- Bahia: Landulfo Alves
- 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: José Carneiro da Gama Malcher
- Paraíba:
- till 29 July: Argemiro de Figueiredo
- 29 July-16 August: Antônio Galdino Guedes
- starting 16 August: Rui Carneiro
- Paraná: Manuel Ribas
- Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
- Piauí: Leônidas Melo
- Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão
- Rio Grande do Sul: Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias
- Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
- São Paulo: Ademar de Barros
- Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho
Vice governors edit
- Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
- São Paulo: no vice governor
Events edit
- 27 April - The Estádio do Pacaembu is inaugurated, at a ceremony attended by President Getúlio Vargas.
May edit
- 1 May: President Getúlio Vargas signs a decree, establishing the country's minimum wage.[1]
- 12 May - The Interlagos Circuit is inaugurated in São Paulo.
- 5 June - President Vargas approves broad military collaboration between Brazil and the United States.
- date unknown - The minority Baenan language becomes extinct.[2]
Arts and culture edit
Films edit
- Argila, directed by Humberto Mauro
Births edit
- 22 February - Aracy Balabanian, actress (died 2023)
- 29 March - Astrud Gilberto, singer-songwriter (died 2023)[3]
- 15 May - Oscar Castro-Neves, guitarist, arranger, and composer (died 2013)[4]
- 19 May - Carlos Diegues, film director
- 23 June - Sérgio Reis, singer and actor
- 21 July - Marco Maciel, politician (died 2021)
- 23 September - Michel Temer, politician
- 23 October - Pelé, footballer (died 2022)[5]
- 16 December - Adelaide Neri, teacher and politician.[6]
Deaths edit
- 29 January - Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, born second-in-line to the Imperial throne of Brazil (born 1875)
- 6 October - Adolfo Lutz, physician and epidemiologist (born 1855)
- 8 November - Evandro Chagas, physician and biomedical scientist (born 1905; air crash)
- date unknown - Manuel F. Araujo, actor (born 1880)
References edit
- ^ "Assignado o decreto que institue o salario minimo no paiz" (primeira página do único caderno), Folha da Noite (2 de maio de 1940).[failed verification]
- ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1963). "Documents et Vocabulaires Inédits de Langues et de Dialects Sud-Américains". Journal de la Société des Américanistes. 52: 7–60. doi:10.3406/jsa.1963.2001.
- ^ Astrud Gilberto, bossa nova singer of The Girl from Ipanema, dies aged 83
- ^ Morre Oscar Castro Neves (in Portuguese)
- ^ Pelé; Duarte, Orlando; Bellos, Alex (2006). Pelé : the autobiography. London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7432-7582-8. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
Shortly before I came along, there was another arrival in Três Corações: electricity. In order to celebrate this great improvement to our daily lives, Dondinho named me Edson, a tribute to Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb. In fact, on my birth certificate I am actually called Edison with an 'i', a mistake that persists to this day. I'm Edson with no 'i', but to my eternal annoyance quite often the 'i' appears on official or personal documents and time after time I have to explain why. As if that wasn't confusing enough, they got the date wrong on my birth certificate as well – it says 21 October. I'm not sure how this came about; probably because in Brazil we're not so fussy about accuracy. This is another mistake that carries on to this day. When I took out my first passport, the date was put in as 21 October and each time I have renewed it the date has stayed the same.
- ^ Mello, Bruna (24 May 2018). "Mãe de prefeita, a ex-deputada Adelaide Neri morre aos 77 anos" [Mother of mayor, former deputy Adelaide Neri dies at 77]. A Gazeta do Acre (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 September 2022.
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