Events in the year 1963 in Brazil.
Incumbents edit
Federal government edit
- President: João Goulart
- Prime Minister: Hermes Lima (until 23 January)
- Vice President: vacant
Governors edit
- Acre: Vacant
- Alagoas: Luis Cavalcante
- Amazonas:
- Gilberto Mestrinho (until 25 March)
- Plínio Ramos Coelho (from 25 March)
- Bahia:
- Juracy Magalhães (until 7 April)
- Lomanto Junior (from 7 April)
- Ceará:
- Parsifal Barroso (until 25 March)
- Virgílio Távora (from 25 March)
- Espírito Santo:
- Asdrúbal Martins Soares (until 31 January)
- Francisco Lacerda de Aguiar (from 31 January)
- Goiás: Mauro Borges
- Guanabara: Carlos Lacerda
- Maranhão: Newton de Barros Belo
- Mato Grosso: Fernando Corrêa da Costa
- Minas Gerais: José de Magalhães Pinto
- Pará: Aurélio do Carmo
- Paraíba: Pedro Gondim
- Paraná: Nei Braga
- Pernambuco:
- Cid Sampaio (until 31 January)
- Miguel Arraes (from 31 January)
- Piauí:
- Tibério Nunes (until 25 March)
- Petrônio Portella (from 25 March)
- Rio de Janeiro:
- José Janotti (until 18 January)
- Luís Miguel Pinaud (18 January-31 January)
- Badger da Silveira (from 31 January)
- Rio Grande do Norte: Aluízio Alves
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- Leonel Brizola (until 25 March)
- Ildo Meneghetti (from 25 March)
- Santa Catarina: Celso Ramos
- São Paulo:
- Carlos Alberto Alves de Carvalho Pinto (until 31 January)
- Ademar de Barros (from 31 January)
- Sergipe:
- Dionísio Machado (until 30 January)
- Horácio Dantas de Goes (30 January-31 January)
- João de Seixas Dória (from 31 January)
Vice governors edit
- Alagoas: Teotônio Brandão Vilela
- Bahia: Orlando Moscoso
- Ceará:
- Wilson Gonçalves (until 31 January)
- Joaquim de Figueiredo Correia (from 25 March)
- Espírito Santo: Rubens Rangel (from 31 January)
- Goiás:
- Antônio Rezende Monteiro (until 31 January)
- Vacant thereafter (from 31 January)
- Maranhão: Alfredo Salim Duailibe
- Mato Grosso: Jose Garcia Neto
- Minas Gerais: Clóvis Salgado da Gama
- Pará: Newton Burlamaqui de Miranda
- Paraíba: André Avelino de Paiva Gadelha
- Pernambuco: Paulo Pessoa Guerra
- Piauí: João Clímaco d'Almeida
- Rio de Janeiro: João Batista da Costa (from 31 January)
- Rio Grande do Norte: Teodorico Bezerra (from 19 January)
- Santa Catarina: Armindo Marcílio Doutel de Andrade
- São Paulo:
- Porfírio da Paz (until 31 January)
- Laudo Natel (from 31 January)
- Sergipe: Celso Carvalho (from 31 January)
Events edit
January edit
- January 6: A plebiscite chooses the presidential system over a parliamentary one. As a result, the office of the Prime Minister is abolished.[1] [2]
- January 8: The flag of Minas Gerais is instituted.[3]
March edit
- March 12: The first Korean immigrants arrive in Brazil.[4][5]
April edit
May edit
- May 23: The Brazilian national team wins its second World Men's Basketball Championship by beating the Soviet Union by 90 to 79 points, in Rio de Janeiro. [8]
July edit
- July 20: Ieda Maria Vargas becomes the first Brazilian to win the Miss Universe title, which is held in Miami Beach, Florida, United States of America.[9]
October edit
- October 7: The Ipatinga massacre takes place, after military police shot at Usiminas employees.[10]
November edit
- November 16: Santos FC becomes the first Brazilian club to win a second Intercontinental Cup (football).[11]
December edit
- December 4: Senator Arnon de Melo, who was trying to shoot Senator Silvestre Péricles, shot and killed alternate Senator José Kairala.[12]
Births edit
January edit
- January 5 – Luís Carlos Winck, footballer and coach
- January 12 – Nando Reis, musician and producer
March edit
- March 11 – Marcos Pontes, astronaut and politician
October edit
- October 31 – Dunga, footballer and coach
November edit
- November 2 – Valdemiro Santiago, evangelical pastor
Deaths edit
- November 4 – Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo, poet and writer (b. 1872)[13]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "18 milhões de brasileiros decidem hoje nas urnas o destino do país" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (6 de janeiro de 1963)
- ^ http://www.justicaeleitoral.jus.br/arquivos/referendo-de-1963
- ^ "Lei estadual de Minas Gerais 2793 de 1963 - Wikisource". pt.wikisource.org (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-04-10.
- ^ "Coreanos música e trabalho" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (12 de fevereiro de 1963).
- ^ "Coreanos ganham terra em litigio" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (4 de março de 1963).
- ^ "Inicia-se o IV Pan-Americano" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (21 de abril de 1963).
- ^ "Fim do Pan: Brasil em 2°" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (6 de maio de 1963).
- ^ "Brasil 90 x URSS 79; a um passo o bi de basquetebol" (página 16 da segunda edição), Folha de S.Paulo (24 de maio de 1963).
- ^ "Ieda, a primeira a vencer no exterior" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (22 de julho de 1963).
- ^ Luiz Alves (17 September 2006). "1963: O Massacre da Usiminas/PMMG em Ipatinga". Mídia Independente. Archived from the original on 2013-03-17. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ^ "Santos bicampeão do mundo" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (17 de novembro de 1963).
- ^ Casarin, Rodrigo (2019-12-04). "Há 56 anos, o pai de Fernando Collor matava um senador dentro do Congresso". Aventuras na História (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-10-09.
- ^ "Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo". Academia Brasileira de Letras (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-04-23.
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