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Events in the year 1974 in Brazil .
Incumbents
[edit ]Federal government
[edit ]- President :
- General Emílio Garrastazu Médici (until 14 March)
- General Ernesto Geisel (starting 15 March)
- Vice President :
- General Augusto Rademaker (until 14 March)
- General Adalberto Pereira dos Santos (starting 15 March)
Governors
[edit ]- Acre : Vacant
- Alagoas : Afrânio Lages
- Amazonas : João Walter de Andrade
- Bahia : Antônio Carlos Magalhães
- Ceará : César Cals
- Espírito Santo : Artur Carlos Gerhardt Santos
- Goiás : Leonino Caiado
- Guanabara : Antonio de Pádua Chagas Freitas
- Maranhão : Pedro Neiva de Santana
- Mato Grosso : José Fragelli
- Minas Gerais : Rondon Pacheco
- Pará : Fernando Guilhon
- Paraíba : Ernâni Sátiro
- Paraná : Emílio Hoffmann Gomes
- Pernambuco : Eraldo Gueiros
- Piauí : Alberto Silva
- Rio de Janeiro : Raimundo Padhila
- Rio Grande do Norte : Jose Pereira de Araújo Cortez
- Rio Grande do Sul : Euclides Triches
- Santa Catarina : Colombo Salles
- São Paulo : Laudo Natel
- Sergipe : Paulo Barreto de Menezes
Vice governors
[edit ]- Acre : Alberto Barbosa da Costa
- Alagoas : José de Medeiros Tavares
- Amazonas : Deoclides de Carvalho Leal
- Bahia : Menandro Minahim
- Ceará : Francisco Humberto Bezerra
- Espírito Santo : Henrique Pretti
- Goiás : Ursulino Tavares Leão
- Maranhão : Alexandre Sá Colares Moreira
- Mato Grosso : José Monteiro de Figueiredo
- Minas Gerais : Celso Porfírio de Araújo Machado
- Pará : Newton Burlamaqui Barreira
- Paraíba : Clóvis Bezerra Cavalcanti
- Paraná : Jaime Canet Júnior
- Pernambuco : José Antônio Barreto Guimarães
- Piauí : Sebastião Rocha Leal
- Rio de Janeiro : Teotônio Araújo
- Rio Grande do Norte : Tertius Rebelo
- Rio Grande do Sul : Edmar Fetter
- Santa Catarina : Atílio Francisco Xavier Fontana
- São Paulo : Antonio José Rodrigues Filho
- Sergipe : Adalberto Moura
Establishments
[edit ]- Construction of the Basilica of the Eternal Father, Trindade was completed.
Events
[edit ]January
[edit ]- 15 January : General Ernesto Geisel is elected President of Brazil by the electoral college in an indirect presidential election. Geisel obtains 400 votes against 76 given to the opposition candidate, Ulysses Guimarães.[1]
February
[edit ]- 1 February : A fire at the Joelma Building in São Paulo kills 177 people and injures 293; 11 die later of their injuries.[2]
March
[edit ]- 4 March : President Emílio Garrastazu Médici officially opens up the Rio-Niterói Bridge, located in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro.[3]
- 15 March : General Ernesto Geisel replaces General Emílio Garrastazu Médici and becomes the 29th President of Brazil. [4]
- 24 -27 March : The Tubarão River waters flood about 80% of the urban area in Tubarão, Santa Catarina. The flood causes 199 fatalities and leaves about 45,000 people homeless.[5]
May
[edit ]- 17 May : Presidents Ernesto Geisel of Brazil and Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay create Itaipu Binacional to manage the construction of the power plant.[6]
- 31 May : Former Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano is granted political asylum by President Ernesto Geisel in Brazil. Caetano fled after Portugal's Carnation Revolution , which ended 41 years of the Estado Novo dictatorship.[7]
July
[edit ]- 1 July : President Ernesto Geisel signs a law that determines the union of the states of Guanabara and Rio de Janeiro.[8]
- 29 July : A collision between a bus carrying 90 passengers and a truck kills 69 people and injures 11 on the Belém-Brasília highway.[9] [10]
Births
[edit ]January
[edit ]- 9 January: Sávio, footballer
- 16 January: Tatiana Issa, director and producer
March
[edit ]- 13 March: Vampeta, footballer and pundit
- 27 March: Fernando Diniz, coach and retired footballer
April
[edit ]- 12 April: Sylvinho, footballer and manager
May
[edit ]- 3 May: Pedro Rizzo, mixed martial arts fighter
July
[edit ]- 5 July: Márcio Amoroso, footballer
December
[edit ]- 31 December: Tony Kanaan, racecar driver
Deaths
[edit ]January
[edit ]- 14 January: Cassiano Ricardo, journalist and poet (b. 1894)
- 16 January: Aldo Bonadei, painter (b. 1906)
July
[edit ]- 16 July: Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, playwright (b. 1936)[11]
References
[edit ]- ^ Geisel eleito, por 400 votos a 76 (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (16 de janeiro de 1974).
- ^ Fire Journal. National Fire Protection Association. 1974. pp. 23–25.
- ^ A Rio-Niterói é a maioridade da engenharia nacional (página 4 do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (5 de março de 1974).
- ^ Esta é a hora da esperança, diz Geisel (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (16 de março de 1974).
- ^ Chuvas continuam e os prejuízos aumentam no Interior e no País (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (25 de março de 1974).
- ^ Por Itaipu, uma usina e uma estrada (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (18 de maio de 1974).
- ^ Latin America. Latin American Newsletters Limited. 1974. p. 160.
- ^ É sancionada a fusão dos dois Estados (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (2 de julho de 1974).
- ^ Carreta mata 69 pessoas na Belém-Brasília (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (30 de julho de 1974).
- ^ Desastre mata 69 na estrada Belém-Brasília (primeira página do 1° caderno), Jornal do Brasil (30 de julho de 1974).
- ^ Leslie Hawkins Damasceno (1996). Cultural Space and Theatrical Conventions in the Works of Oduvaldo Vianna Filho. Wayne State University Press. p. 244. ISBN 9780814325957.
See also
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